Colorado's Front Range Takes a Toll on Wheel Alignment
If you have driven along Colorado’s Front Range for any length of time, you have probably felt it, that subtle pull to one side on the highway, or the steering wheel sitting just slightly off center even though you are driving straight. Maybe your tires seem to be wearing down faster on one edge than the other, and you cannot figure out why. These are textbook signs of a wheel alignment issue. And while alignment problems happen everywhere, the Front Range has a way of making them happen more often. Why Alignment Issues Feel More Common on the Front Range Freeze-Thaw Cycle Colorado’s weather does something relentless to road surfaces. During the day, snow and ice melt, and water seeps into tiny cracks in the pavement. At night, temperatures drop and that water freezes. When water freezes, it expands, and it pushes those cracks open a little wider every time. Over weeks and months of this cycle, the pavement breaks down. What starts as a hairline crack becomes a pothole. What was ...