Personally I take the view that the car and its tires are best left in their factory state as long as possible - and until a problem with either balance or alignment is detected.
My Cadillac is nine years old and has never had it's alignmnent touched.
My Cruze has 55,000 miles on some pretty choppy roads and it's alignment and tire balance has never been touched.
However, I have many times seen problems arise when perfectly good factory alignment and tire balance was adjusted by dealer technicians using unclaibrated equipment - to fix a problem that never existed in the first place.
My Cadillac is nine years old and has never had it's alignmnent touched.
My Cruze has 55,000 miles on some pretty choppy roads and it's alignment and tire balance has never been touched.
However, I have many times seen problems arise when perfectly good factory alignment and tire balance was adjusted by dealer technicians using unclaibrated equipment - to fix a problem that never existed in the first place.