Hi,
I need to do 3 things on my Accord soon : 1) change Tire, 2) do 4 Wheel alignment and 3) change Break Pads(rear) . It happens to be 3 different dealers have promotions on each of them, so I am thinking to do these 3 jobs separately at 3 different places. I was wondering if there is any special order I should follow when I do these 3 things. For example, if I change the tire(including tire balancing) and then go to the 2nd place to do the 4 wheel alignment, will doing the wheel alignment potentially void the effect of Tire Balancing done from 1st places? Or if I do the weel alignment first, then if the next tire balancing will void the effect of it?
Please advise what's the best strategy to do these 3 things.

Thanks a lot

 

tire balancing has nothing to do with the alignment. but getting all this done at a dealer is going to be very expensive im willing to bet even with a promotion you can have all these done in one place for less i mean you can get amazing deals for tires at www.tirerack.com then have a shop do the alignment which can be done for 60 dollars even firestone has a deal for 150 dollars which gives you lifetime alignments every 6,000 miles. and the brake pads you can do yourself for free which is extremely easy to do i can change mine in about 30 mins. this is how easy it actually is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxm5qSSDbw

 

I do not know how long Brake Pads will last in a CR-V and I am curious. I usually start thinking front pads at 50K miles, but I am at 64K now and have plenty of pads left. How many miles are you guys getting?