Harvey Danger
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Tesla will take your money and perform an 'alignment'. Ive heard conflicting reports as to whether you can request them to do the alignment while the suspension is set to a particular ride height. Regardless, they will probably not be very precise about it. Tesla is notorious for using a very generous tolerance and once it's 'within spec' they will make no further adjustment.
More to the point, there is very little adjustment they *can* do anyway- the toe arms can be adjusted a degree or two using 'eccentric bolts' (not especially precise) and the camber arms are not adjustable at all.
So yeah, considering your options for remediating any problems that are found, you will probably be fine either way. If you trust your third party alignment shop (and they are very experienced with teslas) that would probably be a fine option, maybe even slightly superior. The only time I'd see Tesla being the preferred option is if something is way out of whack and cannot be adjusted to be 'within spec' and requires serious warranty repair or something - then you want Tesla to be doing it of course.
Installing after-market adjustable toe arms and camber arms is an entirely separate conversation. Many have decided this is the best way / only way to be able to obtain a meaningfully precise alignment.
More to the point, there is very little adjustment they *can* do anyway- the toe arms can be adjusted a degree or two using 'eccentric bolts' (not especially precise) and the camber arms are not adjustable at all.
So yeah, considering your options for remediating any problems that are found, you will probably be fine either way. If you trust your third party alignment shop (and they are very experienced with teslas) that would probably be a fine option, maybe even slightly superior. The only time I'd see Tesla being the preferred option is if something is way out of whack and cannot be adjusted to be 'within spec' and requires serious warranty repair or something - then you want Tesla to be doing it of course.
Installing after-market adjustable toe arms and camber arms is an entirely separate conversation. Many have decided this is the best way / only way to be able to obtain a meaningfully precise alignment.