They definitley don't need to road check an alignment. Heres what happened...
You dropped your car off, and they told Joey, the 16 year old shop boy, to drive the car over to One-tooth Tony's Body Shop and Ice Cream store for the repair. On the way, Joey pulled up to a stop light, and a 2002 Honda Civic with a giant spoiler on the back pulled up next to him. Joey is the middle child of 8, and isn't all that bright. Wanting to prove his manhood, when the light turned green, he showed that Civic who was boss and hammered it. Joey didn't see the police car right behind him at the light, and the cop promply pulled him over and arrested him.
At this point your car is sitting on the side of the road with the door open and the stereo turned up to 11 while Joey is hauled off. Since there is no one to take the car, the police need to impound it. Tiny, from Compton, shows up with his wrecker to take the car. Tiny doesn't own a flat-bed, so this is just a regular tow truck where your car hangs off the back. Tiny cannot for the life of him figure out how to put the car into neutral, so he just drags the thing off, locked rear wheels screaming all the way. Thankfully the impound lot is only 4 miles away.
A couple of hours later, Joey breaks out of jail and calls the SC, letting them know what happened. The SC tells one of the mechanics from the back, Jose, to get over to the impound lot and get the car. Jose, his friends call him ham-fists, is working on a car which absolutely must be ready this afternoon, but what are you gonna do, this is an emergency.
Jose Ubers it over to the impound lot, where he finds that Tiny has left the windows down, and a family of seagulls has made a complete mess of the interior. He gets in and takes it to his buddy's car wash, a mile away, where they clean the interior thoroughly with windex, and wipe down the outside with some shop towels that were on the floor.
Jose gets back in the car and realizes its at 2% SOC, because its been on all day. Hes only got enough juice to get to the body shop, but as you can imagine, its getting late. Even though it violates every rule in the book, he has no choice but to turn on Ludicrous+. He makes the 6 mile trip in 4 minutes, but the car dies as its rolling into the body shop.
Thoothy Tony fixes the bumper, but they cannot figure out how they're going to get the car back to the SC, or how they're going to explain the dead battery to you. Tiny to the rescue; hes back with his tow truck, and they drag your car back to the SC and plug it in. Its only 2 miles, so how much damage could it really do.
You show up, collect your car, and when you complain about the spike in energy to the manager, its all he can do to keep from laughing. In a stroke of genius, he tells you they had to thoroughly road test it to make sure the alignment, which they forgot to do, was done correctly.
There, now you know what happened, hope this helped.
