Well the alignment guy is a friend of mine and he and his partner run this small shop called Pyramid alignment. Front end work is their specialty, but they do AC and brakes and suspension. They do not do much MB work, but both are excellent mechanics and they have one alignment/computer/laser type machine. I haven't been back to the shop since that time (with this car), it is quite a distance across town. But I remember Paul saying, "well I give up on this thing" Nothing holds on this side, I change one and then I loose the other. Now while I had the car in my garage changing the engine, ect and it sat for a long time with no engine, but I never did notice the outstanding visually obvious error in the way that wheel tilts. I have since read on the forum that if the steering wheel lock is disabled, it makes the alignment job difficult to impossible. Well, I did disable the lock, see no need for it and I do think it is the cause for a lot of lock/key failure. It is just so much easier to jump in that car, stick the key in it and go and I don't have to fight the lock. And I think I could find a way to lock that steering down just for the alignment. Well, I am just trying to find out what I can. I never did learn much about the front suspension. But I am going to get under those front wheels and see what I can find out.

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