Sep 19, 2024

Picture cruising down the highway, your car’s performance smooth and seamless. Suddenly, you start drifting slightly to one side. Here’s an overview of why it’s vital to periodically visit your local Lincoln dealership for wheel alignment.

Lincoln Wheel Alignment: Essential for Optimal Driving Performance

Maintain Precise and Reliable Handling

The wheels of your car are under constant pressure, absorbing regular knocks from potholes, speed bumps, curbs, and rough patches of the road. These impacts steadily push the wheels out of alignment, which hinders steering and vehicle handling. 

As it worsens, misaligned wheels can even cause your car to pull to one side or the steering wheel to become off-center. Routine realignment brings everything back into a perfectly parallel position, returning your Lincoln’s handling and performance to optimal form. 

Stay Safe in Emergency Situations 

If anything reduces the quality of a car’s steering, the driver is more at risk of losing control. In this way, misaligned wheels reduce your overall road safety, increasing the risk of skids and collisions. When our skillful technicians use computerized readouts to return your wheels to their exact OEM positioning, your safety is optimized once more. 

Extend the Lifespan of Your Tires

Tires become worn down unevenly by the awkward pressure put onto them by any wheels angled incorrectly. This reduces traction while also shortening tire longevity. Furthermore, uneven tires accelerate wheel misalignment, worsening the problem. You can fix both issues in one swoop with a professional alignment and a tire rotation. 

Keep Your Drives Smooth and Quiet

The ordinarily silky smooth and blissfully quiet experience of driving a Lincoln might be disrupted if the wheels have become misaligned. The mismatched wheel angles and extra friction generated cause excess road noise and vibrations. 

Visit Your Local Lincoln Dealership if You Experience These Symptoms

If you hear your tires squealing when you corner or experience momentary losses of traction, your wheels may need realignment. Crooked steering or veering to one side are further indications of this problem, as are strange vibrations and uneven tire wear. If you notice these symptoms, don’t hesitate to have your tires inspected and the alignment measured and corrected. 

You can prevent these problems from ever occurring with routine alignment checks, which should be carried out at least twice a year. Most drivers will need to have their wheels realigned every year or two. This depends on the roughness of the roads you typically use, plus a number of other factors.

Visit Astro Lincoln in Pensacola, FL, today to have your wheels precisely realigned by qualified automotive professionals. At our full-service dealership, we seek to deliver a world-class customer experience to match the unbeatable all-American prestige of the Lincoln brand.