I just wanted to make everyone aware of an issue I encountered with my car. I had Alloy Gators installed several months ago and loved the way they looked and helped protect my wheels from curb rashes. A few weeks ago I had to have my rear tires replaced because they were worn out. The LA service center installed two new tires, balanced all four wheels and did an alignment on the car. Ever since that was done my car started to handle very poorly at freeway speeds about 65mph. It was hard to keep it in a lane and it felt like a boat bobbing on the ocean when you would try to change lanes at high speeds or going around sweeping curves.
The service center picked up my car last week and re-ran the alignment check on it and said it was just fine. I tried it again after they gave it back to me and it was still just as bad. I then explained to problem to their top tech and he suspected that since they have to attach the alignment blocks over the Alloy Gators that it could be throwing off the machine. I told them to (permanently) remove the Alloy Gators and re-run the alignment. Like we suspected the car was completely out of alignment when done without the Allow Gators installed. It now drives like it did before and is perfectly stable at high speeds. They did offer to re-install the Gators again, but I said that if they are going to cause problems in the future with aligning the car I'd rather keep them off.
So this is just a word of caution to anyone with Alloy Gators installed. Do not try to have the alignment done with them on the car.
The service center picked up my car last week and re-ran the alignment check on it and said it was just fine. I tried it again after they gave it back to me and it was still just as bad. I then explained to problem to their top tech and he suspected that since they have to attach the alignment blocks over the Alloy Gators that it could be throwing off the machine. I told them to (permanently) remove the Alloy Gators and re-run the alignment. Like we suspected the car was completely out of alignment when done without the Allow Gators installed. It now drives like it did before and is perfectly stable at high speeds. They did offer to re-install the Gators again, but I said that if they are going to cause problems in the future with aligning the car I'd rather keep them off.
So this is just a word of caution to anyone with Alloy Gators installed. Do not try to have the alignment done with them on the car.