It's super difficult to explain and is quite complex - I know plenty of wheel alignment places employ clowns who only know how to make it track in a straight line/achieve even tyre wear to a basic set of rules (toe, camber etc.), so you'd think it was simple.. but when you see someone using a proper 4-wheel alignment machine and realise how many different variables there are and how they manipulate those to achieve what you want, it blows your mind a bit.
Votex have access to a Cartek Bear Robotics 4-wheel aligner, a serious bit of computerised kit. You dial in your settings and away you go. It measures each wheel in god knows how many ways and then applies that as a whole to the car. If/when you go down there, speak to them about what you want from the car. They're really knowledgeable and more importantly listen and tell you whether something is
actually worth doing, even if that means doing themselves out of business by talking you out of fitting/doing something that has little or no effect.. we all know how many tuning products are actually nothing better than cosmetic add ons, but it doesn't stop them being sold on the "potential" to alter x, y and z. That's the difference between some sales focussed businesses that fit parts and a true specialist - agenda.
I see them as a consultant, we discuss what I want, they advise on how to achieve it and then set the car up with whatever I buy in. They do have very good contacts with the major players and compete accordingly on price, but equally they have no issue with me sourcing random parts from elsewhere and just have them do the fitting.
They're quite well known in the Seat camp, given that James Pickford (who won the Cupra Cup championship a while back) is the owner's son, and Votex built the Cupra he won it with. They've worked closely with ABT and their development and also there's the Revo connection, because they understand how their maps work rather than just being an agent flashing cars.
It's not the prettiest, flashiest of places - but they do it right and trade on their reputation, and because of that they're always very busy. I think Mike (who looks after mine) is on holiday till early next week, but speak to them and have a chat about yours.
http://www.votex.ltd.uk/index.php
