Sorry who do you think your talking to?
Do you even know what your talking about? Or is it just your mechanic 'mate' with his hand in your pocket?
There is no need to re-align the wheels if you have simply changed the springs. Removing the front struts and replacing them should not move anything out of line. The only adjustment you would ever need to make is camber, but depends how much you lower the car.
If your happy to pay top whack because you think your car is 'special' and requires special setting up after a basic spring swap then more fool you. And learn some manners too :icon_thumright:
And anything over 2 and a half hours is just LOL.
I asked you a question, I didnt say you were anything or insulted you as such, did I, hence "Are you even Lucid?"
It was more a question in disbelief you would say those things as I personally beleive what you said/saying is wrong, its my POV as you've given yours & who said we were supposed to agree with eachother.
As boycie has said & as you & I both know that the whole hub has to come of which in itself requires the removal of at least 6 bolts/nuts, 3 on the wishbone & 3 on the top mounts, the alignment was setup beforehand based on with the suspension being in this bolted position anyway along with the tie/track rods, none of these bolts/nuts specifically have locators for a fixed position iirc, so the possibility is there for the alignment to have changed as such & it has on few cars of mine & no thats not because of crap workmanship, just these things happen when you come up against hurdles maybe etc etc unforeseen possibles, like driving down the road & alignment gets knocked out somehow huh.
As I said it should be done as a precaution given how small a difference to alignment can make to driving the UK roads.
I havnt proclaimed to be the worlds master mechanic if one at all tbh on this or anyother thread for that matter, but I know this much at least with my very own eyes getting my hands dirty actually doing the work, which most dont, so from my experiences I think you're wrong, but hey everyone's entitled to an opinion on a forum whether we like it or not, others are welcome to do as they see fit with there cars, but I for one will always do alignments after doing this kinda work as I know it does get affected.
I have manners thanks, but again IMHO I feel what you've posted is wrong when doing this specific job anyway.
I dont ever pay top whack thanks, not cause I'm tight, but because I do most of my car work where possible as I like to learn & actually do something for myself instead of paying everyother tom, **** & harry, life would be boring if we all did huh & we'd all broke if paying audis rates, lol.
My car is special, to me