[RedHawk]

So I took the car to the other shop today and the tech and I spent a healthy amount of time dialing in the suspension. It was clearly off, but for now we got it in fairly acceptable specs What was confirmed, however, was that the shop that did the original work did not do the necessary leg work in determining the correct parts to achieve the desired result.

Even though reasonable specs were achieved today the toe is still not ideal and if not corrected in a reasonable period of time premature tire wear will ultimately occur. This is because after they realized that the parts ordered weren't going to simply bolt on they decided to cut the existing tower brackets and fabricate their own. This changed the tie-rod specs and when they tried dialing in the toe there wasn't enough threads to adjust, the driver side tie rod maxed out with no threads showing. What I need to do now is to order slightly shorter tie rods if this is even possible in order to adjust toe to 0 specs. I am researching this now.

I will say that after today's alignment the car is very pleasing to drive, except of course the over heating.

This past weekend I diagnosed that the alternator diode was bad. We again confirmed this after the alignment was finished today. I know this can happen at any time its just suspect that it happened on their watch. Hard to ignore when so many other things were improperly done. I think after replacing the alternator overheating may be eliminated since this is controlling not only electric fan which has been losing its velocity once battery doesnt charge but also the sequence of other electrical components like spark plug firing which may be creating excessive heat.

Sucks that this thread has turned in to a ***** session and completely unrelated issues from the original suspension plans. Hopefully someone can learn from my mistakes.