Chaya Eve wrote:

This is a good point in that it's the standard cost of maintaining a car
just like rotating the tires and changing the oil is.

I just wish it didn't cost as much as the thing it's trying to save!

You don't do maintenance to save your tires. You do maintenance to save your
life.

Maybe you have a tie rod going bad. Maybe you have a steering knuckle wearing
out. Probably not, but unless you check it, you don't know. And if you do
have a front end problem, the only symptom you may have is odd tire wear. So
you check it out.

You check the front end because the consequences of front end failure on a
twisty road are very, very bad and may well involve your head becoming
separated from the rest of your body as your vehicle rolls down the side of
the mountain.

Tire life? Who cares. Tires are cheap, passengers are expensive.
--scott


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