On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 22:38, David Gersic <info@zaccaria-pinball.com> wrote:
>
> 2001 4x4 Dakota
>
> My front tyres were worn funny, back ones look ok. Got about 27K miles on
> them. So in to the local NTB for some new fronts and an alignment check. The
> truck does have a slight pull when driving, so I figure the alignment is
> probably off a little.
>
> Looking at the tyres, the guy says he thinks it's alignment and probably the
> shocks are bad. With 120K miles on the truck, and no idea how old the shocks
> are, this seems a reasonable diagnosis to me.
>
> I get a call later. The tyres are done, but they can't do the alignment.
> Shocks are bad (no surprise there), but they also want to replace the upper
> and lower ball joints because they're bad. I told them to finish the tyres,
> hold off on the alignment, and I'll take care of the ball joints and shocks
> myself. Later, when I picked it up, I'm told that the lowers are bad, but that
> I might as well replace the uppers at the same time (so the uppers are not
> bad?).
There was a recall on your upper ball joints issued in December 2004.
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