Portable Wheel Alignment QuickSlide System w/Case

If this was $69.95, I would be OK with it. But for $350+, it's a huge waste of money, and I definitely feel like a sucker and an idiot for buying the hype. The gist: it's inaccurate, poorly constructed--quality control is non-existent--and it just seems like a huge amount of money for something so sloppily thrown together. And at the end of the day, I'm not sure I'd believe it when it said everything was properly aligned.My unit came with only half of the hardware mounted on the bars. Not a big deal, except an Allen-head screw and washer were missing entirely, and there are no spares. The "instructions" tell us the hardware comes mounted, which makes it all the more irritating that this piece was missing. Again, $69.95? Fine. $380 and missing stuff? Really?A much bigger problem is that the "gauge bracket"--the heart of this system, where you mount the electronic level--had two problems on mine, one quality control and one which is just poor design. The quality control issue is that it's supposed to be a 90-degree bracket, and mine was off by at least 5 degrees. BFD you say? Remember, we're trying to read tenths-of-a-degree here. Inexcusable. I would have thought one of the reasons I was paying $380 for $29 worth of raw materials was because someone at the factory made sure everything was precisely set up, the whole point of a tool like this.As it is, I've had to spend a ton of time both bending the bracket to "close" (bend a bit, measure, bend a bit, measure, bend a bit, measure, bend a bit...on and on). Then, because you're probably not going to get it absolutely 90 degrees, you will be shimming it to be exact...which is frustrating because of the bracket design problem.This bracket is supposed to be 90-degrees to the upright in two axes. One axis is established by the above-mentioned bend in the bracket, but the bracket also has to be secured in such a way that it can't rotate, which establishes the other axis. And this one easily rotates because it is secured with a single screw. As a bonus, mine, out of the box was tightened 10 degrees off. Because it's only held on by a single bolt, it's very, very frustrating trying to tighten it and keep it from rotating out of that axis, especially if you have to shim the top or the bottom of the bracket, as I have to do.Moving on, the wheel mounting points are not very secure. In my case, you cannot pull the toe measuring tapes across without pulling the unit off the wheel. I resorted to using a light bungie strap across the unit to put just a bit of positive pressure on it to keep it in place.The included measuring devices are not great. The tapes are super-cheap and have a very annoying scale where the foot markers are pretty ambiguous, so if your car's track happens to be one where the tape ends up there, you'll be a bit frustrated. The tapes themselves do not measure precisely the same (about 1/16th of an inch on these two), so their differences need to be taken into account. One of mine bent the first time it was used, too.The angle measuring tool included was not calibrated--do not believe the tiny, tiny type on the instruction sheet which suggests careful factory calibration. Mine was off by three degrees on the vertical. What it said was perpendicular from its own 0 was actually 87 degrees. Once calibrated, it seems OK, though I get about a .1 degree variance from time to time.The angle measuring gadget has also already eaten a set of batteries. I would guess the unit has been on a total of ten minutes, spread across several days of trying to get this set up to take a measurement which wasn't laughable. One of the reasons I bought this was to not only save money on alignments, but to save myself time...usually the biggest time sink isn't the measuring and adjustment, but the hassle of arranging rides, dropping cars off, all that. This has just substituted one kind of hassle for another.The QuickSlide will also only work on wheels which have their rims as the highest point. If you have a classic car with knock-offs or wheels where the center part comes out much more than a half inch past rim-level, you will have to cobble together some adapters.Dollar to satisfaction, this is the most disappointing tool I've ever purchased.

I am an experienced Mechanic, 30 plus years, and I just love this tool.The best thing about it, is that you don't have to be as experienced as me to use it.It is very affordable, and easy to use.Some people hate to do wheel alignments, but I just love doing them.With this tool you can Align cars and small trucks, very nice tool.They do make a larger tool for large trucks.

Got this item as a giff, so I don't feel too bad that it's a $300 pile of scrap metal. I saw all the hype on TV and YouTube about being a good solution for DIY alignments. I'm an experienced mechanic and figured it would be a decent tool in my home garage but was thoroughly disappointed.One person could make this product in their home garage for less than 20 bucks. It's a few pieces of square steel tubing, poorly cut, and some cheap hardware. The killer part is that it's not accurate AT ALL! I setup my car on a profession alignment rack and performed a full alignment using a Hunter system that was professionally calibrated that morning. I then immediately used the Quicktrick system and performed the same measurements. The QT system was off by several degrees...and in the opposite direction ( pos vs neg camber). It reads very repeatable, but VERY inaccurate. I tried several times to calibrate the gauge but always came up with the same measurement.The key issue is the gauge bracket, and given that it's just bent sheet metal, is that it it not 90 degrees to the wheel or horizontal to the ground. This immediately compounds the error that you're trying to read exactly off the gauge. No matter how much you zero or calibrate the gauge, you can never dial out the error in the bracket. Also, there is no guarantee that the other pieces of tubing are straight and vertical either, especially since they are poorly bolted together.There is certainly a tolerance stack up between all the rim clamp posts too and how they're attached to the frame, which only adds to the inaccuracies of this device. Again, no way to know for sure if it's truly parallel to the wheel once mounted up.I didn't even bother to measure toe as I can't at all imagine how it can been accurate with two cheap tape measures when you're trying to perform an alignment to tenths of a degree.Bottom line, do not buy. You could get 5 professional alignments for the price of this kit.