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Old Feb 27, 2012 | 09:11 AM
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Cheap tire mounting/balancing and alignment in socal

Hey guys, I'm looking for some shops that offer cheap mounting, balancing and alignments. The only place I've i've been recommended to is 714 tires, but i have not checked their prices.
 
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Old Mar 14, 2012 | 08:51 AM
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714 tires is pretty legit. I only have bought tires off of them and have the best prices around. As for alignments I'm not sure. They've just started doing that pretty recently (less than a year or so).
 
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where in socal?
 
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Old Mar 14, 2012 | 03:30 PM
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714 tires is pretty legit. I only have bought tires off of them and have the best prices around. As for alignments I'm not sure. They've just started doing that pretty recently (less than a year or so).
i was originally going to go there, but i the manager at Americas Tire asked me where i was going to get them mounted and he offered a cheaper price. I still going to need an alignment when my camber bolts come in tomorrow.
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where in socal?
orange county
 
Old Mar 24, 2012 | 05:21 PM
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i've seriously gone to 714 tires every time i needed something done to my rims. they do it well and cheap. highly recommend them! also very friendly as well
 
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Temple City Auto Repair put gashes in all 4 of my rims when they mounted tires for me.

Great price, but yeah.
 
Old Mar 25, 2012 | 02:03 PM
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Temple City Auto Repair put gashes in all 4 of my rims when they mounted tires for me.

Great price, but yeah.
I've never had any problems there
 
Old Mar 25, 2012 | 04:48 PM
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I've never had any problems there
I'm happy for you.

Also all the outboard wheel weights fell off within 2 weeks. I cleaned the area and applied new ones.
 
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i've seriously gone to 714 tires every time i needed something done to my rims. they do it well and cheap. highly recommend them! also very friendly as well
i've heard good things from here, but they are charging me 80 bucks for a two wheel alignment
 
Old Mar 27, 2012 | 04:37 PM
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i've heard good things from here, but they are charging me 80 bucks for a two wheel alignment
ohh, i've never gotten an alignment at 714tires, ive only mounted and balanced my wheels there. all 4 for about 60$ cash.

as for alignment, i would HIGHLY recommend "Jim's Suspension" in Orange, CA. I got all 4 of my wheels aligned here for 50$ cash
 
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Originally Posted by mintyPham
ohh, i've never gotten an alignment at 714tires, ive only mounted and balanced my wheels there. all 4 for about 60$ cash.

as for alignment, i would HIGHLY recommend "Jim's Suspension" in Orange, CA. I got all 4 of my wheels aligned here for 50$ cash
wow, thanks man. I just called for an alignment tomorrow for $50.
 
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wow, thanks man. I just called for an alignment tomorrow for $50.
Nice! no prob man, you should walk around the orange circle while you're waiting as well ^_^ there's a beautiful Wahoo's nearby

hope to see you at the socal fitfreak meet! https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/cali...ion-unite.html
 
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Nice! no prob man, you should walk around the orange circle while you're waiting as well ^_^ there's a beautiful Wahoo's nearby

hope to see you at the socal fitfreak meet! https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/cali...ion-unite.html
i'm pretty pissed... I just came back from the alignment and im going to have to spend some more cash for someone to do it right. I pretty much lost 50 dollars. He told me that he could only adjust my driver side to -1.5 and psnger to -1.0 so my car looks all lopsided now and my steering is off center. I had ingalls camber bolts which let you adjust +- 2 degrees (i had -0.05 prior). I also looked at the camber washer and they were no where near maxed out.

I should have went to 714 tires
 
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...and my front bumper is scuffed up from him trying to get it onto the rack.
 
Old Mar 28, 2012 | 03:59 PM
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I always used Johnson Wheel Alignment Services in Torrance on my AE. They do racecars/P-cars, whatever, all kinds of work too, not just alignments. They do old school alignments, no computers. Test drive to make sure they did it right.

I think they charged me $60 for a 2 wheel (solid rear end), but i've heard they upped prices a little, I dunno. Car always drove solid, I was a fan.
 
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i'm pretty pissed... I just came back from the alignment and im going to have to spend some more cash for someone to do it right. I pretty much lost 50 dollars. He told me that he could only adjust my driver side to -1.5 and psnger to -1.0 so my car looks all lopsided now and my steering is off center. I had ingalls camber bolts which let you adjust +- 2 degrees (i had -0.05 prior). I also looked at the camber washer and they were no where near maxed out.

I should have went to 714 tires
dude, fuq man.. now i feel bad. idk, i had a good experience with him. a local imports shop referred me to him and they never had any complaints with him.. T_______T
 
Old Mar 29, 2012 | 03:35 AM
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i work for america's tire in northridge, we dnt do any alignment work but mounting and all that i can do
 
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