a64olz

So here I was, Monday afternoon doing a little lawn work and sweeping the driveway. I had just put new tires and had the front end aligned on Saturday on my 64 wagon, drove it around a few miles over the weekend, anyhoo so as I am sweeping the driveway "dang" or some other word here is this metal piece in the street right in front of my driveway, hmmm... "crap"! there's another one. I drop the broom and go over to my 64 and pop the hood and yep, there is an alignment shim laying on the passenger side crossmember up against the motor mount and a big ole gap between the front of the control arm and the shaft. The guy did not tighten the nuts on the control arms on the passenger side after he put in the shims.

A trip down to the shop and the manager is beet red after I show him the shims, he thanked me for not throwing the shims at him when I walked into the shop Wednesday after work.

The car will be back in for another alignment Saturday morning.

Lady72nRob71

Ouch! Glad nothing else bad happened!
Be sure to tighten those top bolts before you drive it back to the shop though.

oldstata

Wow glad your okay and cought it before anything happened . I am even more surprised that the shop would have offered to have it towed to the shop for safety reasons !

MDchanic

Idiots.

World's full of 'em.

That's why I don't let anyone with a wrench in his hand near any of my cars.

- Eric

jaunty75

Even to the point of doing your own alignments?

OLD SKL 69

That's the only thing I will let someone else do. But I check the tightness of the bolts after they do it and retorque as necessary. The last aligment I had done was on my Cutlass last year and the idiot forgot to tighten the bolts on one of the tie-rod adjusters. Glad it didn't break loose on the way home.

MDchanic

What Darrell said.

I used to do my own alignments, when I had access to a high school shop, before everyone retired .

Now, I watch the guy like a hawk, then recheck it and check tightness right away.

I have one of these which helps to tighen them up right-quick .

- Eric

oldcutlass

I'd make sure he didn't strip the bolts at the serrations, thats the number one cause of them being loose.

mike's88

Even though mistakes do happen(obviously), at least the manager fessed up, admitted the fault and didn't try to pass it off on some other bogus problem that the car might have. Good thing you're tidy.

Lady72nRob71

I do my own with the SPC alignment jig, for the reason of not trusting anyone else to do it. It works quite well.