hi guys, well i went to get my xA aligned today and they told me the worst news. They told me that my rear subframe is bent, and that they cant align my car til its fixed. Now i have to go to a body shop to get it fixed, but i was wondering if any of you guys can give me an estimate of how much this is gonna cost?

 

well the body shop frame alignment ppl are gonna bring it in and we'll give you an estimate

hopefuly it shouldn't cost more then 300 dollars i think idk

just depends how bad its bent,

 

how badly bent does it have to be for an alignment to not be possible?

 

How did you manage to bent it anyhow? Were you out Rally Crossing on train tracks or something? =P

 

i can tell you.. i took my box to a tire/wheel shop and they jacked up the car in the middle of the rear swing arm... this ended up bending the swing arm right in the middle. needless to say i was pretty ____ed. im still trying to get them to replace the arm, but they say this is a normal operation and their not at fault. maybe i need to call a laywer.

 

eh it added camber........go after them

 

Look in your manual about jacking points. For jacking in the middle, the manual shows the use of the subframe in front, and a special reinforced point in the rear.

It says NOT to use the rear subframe and swing arms, and has dots showing the forbidden points. This should clinch your case.

 

^^^^ exactly. one other thing on video / audio is getting them to say they did it. so if u goto court they dont pull the " it was already that way"

 

they are idiots Mikey...................... Should have brought it to my shop....... oh well.

 

black_xb,
where is your shop and what exactly do you do?

 

My shops in silver spring we do repairs and such....

 

lol i forgot i made this thread, well anyways it turns out that the people at national tire and battery where i was getting my alignment done, lied to me. I have no clue why they would do that but whatever, everythings all good now

 

Glad you actually didn't have a problem, but to prevent actually having a problem in the future, everyone should memorize this little blurb in the manual:

 

Tom for the win once again!

--Dennis