Alignments are easy and do not require $40,000 lifts or an alignment machine. All that equipment does is make it more efficient (by consuming less time) to accomplish the same task. I wouldn't go to a mechanic that answered me like that. What a jerk. Not all mechanics are disinforming grease monkeys with their nose in the air.
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