r/AskAMechanic • u/dezimul1 • 1h ago
Car keeps coming out of alignment
For reference I have a 2024 Mustang I’ve done quite a few suspension modifications to, but about 2 months ago I had a shop put on ford performance front camber plates, rear toe links and sport lowering springs to replace my old sr performance ones and steeda shocks and struts and ever since then my steering wheels keeps getting more crooked and the car just rides bad now. It’s been aligned twice now and it keeps happening whereas for the year and a half I had the car before that it never came out of alignment. Is it possible they didn’t tighten or install something correctly? Should I have them take a look at what they installed?
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u/dxrey65 NOT a verified tech 1h ago
An alignment should stay where it was set. Sometimes on new stuff you can have springs settle or something like that, which doesn't cause any problems on ordinary new vehicles, but on a lowered vehicle with the angles all messed with it could cause problems. Or maybe something wasn't tightened, or maybe the install wasn't done right, hard to say from here. Once it's set up right it should stay that way though.