I took my beater woods truck to a local tire shop for an alignment. They told me they couldn't align it because I had a sticky U-joint, and then charged me for and hour of labor because they had to "take the tie rods off." I argued because a) u-joints don't impact alignment and b) there was about an inch of grime on the castle nuts, so there's no way the tie rods came off. They brought out a manager who just made s**t up about how alignments work...I am a mechanical engineer. I think they thought they could get away with it because I am female. Nope, I filed a complaint with the state and they were fined for lying about service costs.