Hi everyone,
I changed my shocks and springs last week and whilst the suspension settles, I'm looking for a place to get a geo set-up done.
I know I want to get as close to as the CSL set up as possible as a starting point. From what I read it's fairly neutral leaning towards overseer, which is exactly what I would like for fast road use.
I got quoted £160 by a BMW specialist based in Banbury. He doesn't have the equipment to do himself, but he will take my car to his trusted alignment place and help them achieve the CSL figures. Is this a reasonable quote? Might not be for those up north, but seems fairly reasonable to me, just want confirmation as he's the first person I contacted.
I paid £96 for a 4-wheel alignment in Windsor, so £160 doesn't seem that unreasonable.
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Took the car to Black Boots in Chesham this morning. My car was on the ramp exactly at the booked time, no need to wait around. The guy who aligned my car was extremely to the point, asked what I wanted, to which I said "from the car I want neutral handling with oversteer bias, some people in the forum suggested that the M3 CSL geo setup offers just that". He just nodded and got to work.
He was fine with me just watching next to the car, told me what he was doing at each stage, answered some of my curiosities about the Hunter machine and had a good ol' rant about people who try tracking the front wheels without referencing the rear wheels (thrust angle).
30 min later (all bolts were easy to undo apart from the N/S rear camber adjustment bolt) I was £162 poorer and had a car properly set up.
My 'OCD' loved the fact he tried his best to get exactly the target values, not just be within tolerance of them. Great guy.
I changed my shocks and springs last week and whilst the suspension settles, I'm looking for a place to get a geo set-up done.
I know I want to get as close to as the CSL set up as possible as a starting point. From what I read it's fairly neutral leaning towards overseer, which is exactly what I would like for fast road use.
I got quoted £160 by a BMW specialist based in Banbury. He doesn't have the equipment to do himself, but he will take my car to his trusted alignment place and help them achieve the CSL figures. Is this a reasonable quote? Might not be for those up north, but seems fairly reasonable to me, just want confirmation as he's the first person I contacted.
I paid £96 for a 4-wheel alignment in Windsor, so £160 doesn't seem that unreasonable.
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Took the car to Black Boots in Chesham this morning. My car was on the ramp exactly at the booked time, no need to wait around. The guy who aligned my car was extremely to the point, asked what I wanted, to which I said "from the car I want neutral handling with oversteer bias, some people in the forum suggested that the M3 CSL geo setup offers just that". He just nodded and got to work.
He was fine with me just watching next to the car, told me what he was doing at each stage, answered some of my curiosities about the Hunter machine and had a good ol' rant about people who try tracking the front wheels without referencing the rear wheels (thrust angle).
30 min later (all bolts were easy to undo apart from the N/S rear camber adjustment bolt) I was £162 poorer and had a car properly set up.
My 'OCD' loved the fact he tried his best to get exactly the target values, not just be within tolerance of them. Great guy.
