The typical owner of this car is older. Laser alignments are easy, cheap, and don’t require wheel removal. (Torque wrench, jack, up/down a bunch o times for zero reason)
someone would rather pay than use THEIR OWN laser alignment rack or your cheese ‘cool level and magic instructions’.
Tell me you didn't read my instructions without telling me you didn't read my instructions.
My instructions are for people doing their own camber arm install. If you are already doing that, there is an easy way to set camber while you are there, without much additional work than the actual install, without having to install the arms wrong, without having to pay for a custom alignment because you can't adjust the arms with the wheel on, so you can't do the "cheap" alignment you quoted.
This is for someone that has already decided to do their own install. The age of that person is irrelevant. Yes, if you are paying someone to do the install, you pay for a complete alignment. You probably also aren't using hardrace arms.
And FYI, F1 teams use strings and angle gauges to align, not lasers, which is how I do alignments in my garage too. You don't need a laser alignment rack to do an alignment, and it's commonly considered to be more accurate as well. But that's not even this discussion, as nobody here is suggesting DIY toe.
What is particularly weird is that you're fixated on how cheap and easy it is to get Firestone to do an alignment, while when you read this thread, it has multiple mentions of people having a hard time finding someone to do alignments or having to pay a lot extra for them. You're also being disingenuous in acting like it's easy since you have posted in multiple other threads at TMC about people saying they can't get firestone to do an alignment.
you get people “helping people DIY” and people attempting to get people to interact with professionals that can handle this without issue.
Given you want to leave everything to the "professionals" at Firestone, I am interested why you aren't annoyed that people are doing their own DIY control arm installs as well? I mean, you can totally hire a professional to do this too without issue. Is your rule that as long as it's possible to pay someone to do something, you should do so?
