Purcell Tire & Service in Mabelvale, AR

City and metropolitan driving is hard on alignment. Curbs, potholes and construction surfaces all move the angles the wheels sit at, and the vehicle rarely tells the driver. What tells you is the tire: one edge worn, or feathering across the tread.

That applies to a commuter's sedan and to a tractor unit running the same roads. Car and light truck alignment and heavy-duty truck alignment are both offered here, and the right time for either is before a new set of tires goes on rather than after.

Casings collected at Mabelvale are retreaded at a Purcell plant, the nearest being Potosi, Missouri. No retreading happens on site. For a fleet, this is where the real tire saving sits: the casing outlives the tread, and keeping it means stopping a unit as soon as a tire fails. See retreading.

Call before you come. Five minutes on the phone establishes whether the work is on this store's list, how long to allow, and whether anything needs ordering, which is the difference between dropping a vehicle and waiting with it.

Say what the vehicle is doing rather than what you think is wrong: a noise and when it happens, a pull and on what surface, a vibration and at what speed. That description shortens the diagnosis more than a guess at the cause does.

If tires and other work are both due, say so when you book. The wheels are coming off anyway, and doing both in one visit saves a second trip.