Ford admits to "Generic Alignment"
I never thought I would live to see the day that Ford actually admitted to the "generic alignment". Ford Generic Alignment Thanks to handle "ruffingit" for the posting the experience.
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The only reason I'm at all surprised to see they "admitted" this is because it seems so obvious to me that they couldn't do much otherwise for a cab and chassis or cutaway chassis or stripped chassis vehicle. What possible non-generic alignment could suffice for the various different kinds of applications that an E series chassis gets used for: RVs, shuttle busses, ambulances, box trucks, specialty work vehicles...? Even taking a single sort of vehicle, say a box truck, the required ideal alignment could well vary depending on what and how much is generally carried in the truck, and whether it will be towing a trailer, and so forth.
Bicycles are sold with generic seat height adjustments, too, for much the same reason. Refrigerators come with the shelves in generic locations (or require you to figure that out for yourself).
For what it's worth, I think my class C (on a Ford chassis) has the factory caster setting, whatever it is, and it's not a wandering beast, nor difficult to control. It is a somewhat lumbering big wide vehicle, but that's just because it's big and heavy and tall; no amount of alignment is going to make it behave like my car, nor would I expect that. But I'm not chasing it all over the road, nor is it exhausting to drive it for a some hours (unless in bad traffic or weather or other nasty conditions).
Bicycles are sold with generic seat height adjustments, too, for much the same reason. Refrigerators come with the shelves in generic locations (or require you to figure that out for yourself).
For what it's worth, I think my class C (on a Ford chassis) has the factory caster setting, whatever it is, and it's not a wandering beast, nor difficult to control. It is a somewhat lumbering big wide vehicle, but that's just because it's big and heavy and tall; no amount of alignment is going to make it behave like my car, nor would I expect that. But I'm not chasing it all over the road, nor is it exhausting to drive it for a some hours (unless in bad traffic or weather or other nasty conditions).
