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After wrecking one tyre (price you pay for not paying enough attention to tyre wearing pattern :blush: and not checking it after getting the car from a compliance) I went to one tyreshop and they recommended 4 wheel alignment. They had 2 problems :

- they didnt have data for stagea in their computer, so they were going to use Nissan Z380 data

- they could not undo one nut, they didnt want to wreck it or damage bushes by hitting the nut, su they'we done nothing and they recommended me to go and see suspension workshop.

Now, they dilemma I am facing ... what do I do ? :D Should i just get the wheel alignment data from the forum, such as :

Ref wheel geometry, these settings are from SK's thread for his road Wagon "front rear toe =zero, front camber = 1 deg neg, front caster as much as possible, left side 0.25 deg more than right for road camber issues, rear camber 0.5 deg negative.

from http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/St...ment&st=440,

or can someone recommend a tyre shop in Perth where guys know something about Stageas please ? Or I need to go and see suspesion people ?

OR I get Blistein suspension, removed from my car doing compliance process (unknown condition, not sure if everything is there) and get it installed and get everything done after that ?

Any ideas, guys (and gils) :D - please share :P)

PS in any case - would be nice to know about tyreshops in Perth who are dealing with stageas...

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cant be much help but if you need A Suspension place here in Perth you could go see Brad (aka R DIRTY 3 on this forum) who works at WA Suspensions..they seem to have a good rep with the skyline wa boys :blush:

yes brad at w.a's this the man, have delt with him heaps through beaurepaires.

beaurepaires in melville will sort ya w/alignment out too mate

otherwise come see me at beauies at in freo ill sort ya out too;)

if ya come see me this week i wont charge ya a cent:D

yes brad at w.a's this the man, have delt with him heaps through beaurepaires.

beaurepaires in melville will sort ya w/alignment out too mate

otherwise come see me at beauies at in freo ill sort ya out too;)

if ya come see me this week i wont charge ya a cent:D

Thanks mate, I should get (fingers crossed)back to Perth from lovely Kalgoorlie :blush: on Thursday evening, so if I have a chance I'll pop up to your shop (I recently moved close to Freo) for a chat or more then :D - free wheel alignment sounds tempting, heh ? :D)))))))))))

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also wheels world do a great job of alignment/ sussing out suspension problems ..

great service.. but you do pay for it. they were about the only ones that ironed out my suspension problems in the old pulsar I had.

Wilkinson Suspension, Sean, knows my Stagea, (got HICAS lockbars too) also knows GTRs' so there are at least three mobs on the money.

cheers GW :D

PS: Take your Bilstein suspension bits with you, at least to get them checked for useablity?

my 2c.

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