I have had a bad vibration from my front end for a while now, even though I just got an alignment 800 miles ago. The front end rattles like shit at 80mph so I decide I'll just take it in for another alignment, since I have free lifetime over at Firestone. I drop it off and tell them to do the alignment and a balance, and they call me an hour later and tell me my front wheel hub bearings are shot!!!!! He tells me it will be 380 with my Enterprise discount and I told him I'd call him back. I called my buddy and he said he'd charge $200, so I knew $380 wasn't out of the ballbark. I talked em down to $300 with the balance and gave em the go head. I'm kinda happy, though, because the front end vibe is GONE.
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