Do I need alignment?




I wanted to get experienced opinions on alignment:
1) How do you judge how often you have it done?
2) How often do you have it done?
3) Can a diagnostic be done to see an alignment needs to be done?
4) Other details welcome!
Driving background:
I got my car in October, drove on the 19' summers through to the end-ish of November, then put on the 18' winters. Did NOT have alignment done then.
Since then I mostly drive in the city (daily commute is 23km // 14 miles in total) + errands + 2 road trips. I'm at +7000km // 4350 miles.
I've hit 2 potholes at about 40km/h that I was like "F*ck", but they weren't huge. I don't know how else to describe it haha. The rest are typical crappy Toronto downtown roads.
I wanted to get experienced opinions on alignment:
1) How do you judge how often you have it done?
2) How often do you have it done?
3) Can a diagnostic be done to see an alignment needs to be done?
4) Other details welcome!
Driving background:
I got my car in October, drove on the 19' summers through to the end-ish of November, then put on the 18' winters. Did NOT have alignment done then.
Since then I mostly drive in the city (daily commute is 23km // 14 miles in total) + errands + 2 road trips. I'm at +7000km // 4350 miles.
I've hit 2 potholes at about 40km/h that I was like "F*ck", but they weren't huge. I don't know how else to describe it haha. The rest are typical crappy Toronto downtown roads.



