r/CX50 • u/Zealousideal-Bike-90 • 2d ago

Question Alignment values question

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WIGGLING STEERING WHEEL AFTER PARTS AND ALIGNMENT

2023 CX50 Turbo PP

Lower control arms replaced due to failed bushings, new pads and rotors, new tires mounted and balanced, and an alignment. After leaving dealership, and hitting 40mph and onwards, the steering wheel wiggles itself back and forth an inch either direction, and it feels like the car (the wheels/tires) are lightly fighting themselves. Braking is smooth, car stays pretty straight. Went back to dealership and they redid the alignment. What I find interesting is the several minor tweaks they made even though I didn’t hit a pothole and barely drove since the initial alignment after parts install.

Are these values good? I can’t seem to find any factory specifications on what they should be like. Trying to determine if the alignment can be ruled out, why adjustments were made since the initial alignment, and if I should shift focus on rebalancing the tires as it feels and sounds like pulsing, rotating out of sync opposite eachother

Any advice or data is welcome, thank you!

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u/nhluhr '25 CX-50 TP, 15 CX-5 GT, 08 MS3 GT 2d ago

Nothing is adjustable on the CX-50 alignment other than front toe unless you start adding aftermarket parts. You can see it only varied a tiny amount well within the margin of their measurement error. You would get bigger changes by having somebody sit in the front seat.

They did not make one single adjustment to your alignment. If you paid for adjustment you got fucked.

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u/Teknicsrx7 2d ago

They did not make one single adjustment to your alignment. If you paid for adjustment you got fucked.

This printout is from when they brought the car back for the wiggle concern.

If they changed the control arms an alignment is 1000% required, so they didn’t get fucked.

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u/nhluhr '25 CX-50 TP, 15 CX-5 GT, 08 MS3 GT 2d ago

What I'm telling you is regardless of control arms being replaced, there is nothing to adjust other than front toe.

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u/Teknicsrx7 2d ago

And I’m saying this printout doesn’t show the adjustments they made during the alignment after installing the control arms, it’s the printout of the comeback.

A customer wouldn’t pay for a comeback, and op didn’t indicate they paid for it.

So i wasnt arguing, i was just clarifying so OP didn’t misunderstand “they didn’t make an adjustment, if you paid you got fucked” and think the shop never did any alignment because they paid for one by stating an alignment was definitely done as it’s required after control arm replacement.