Supertracker discusses the future of wheel alignment and why it’s green.
Supertracker is synonymous with wheel alignment, with a history spanning over three decades and tens of thousands of machines in use today. Now under new management, Supertracker has reinvented itself as the home of straightforward wheel alignment. But don’t be fooled straightforward does not mean boring, in fact it is consistently evolving its offer to customers, keeping abreast with changes and challenges facing modern garages today and adapting its products to suit.
With manufacturing based in Nottinghamshire, an established full-service team to operationally deliver high levels of customer service, combined with a passion to lead in the wheel alignment space, Supertracker is committed to investing and innovating its wheel alignment offer.
Laser technology in wheel alignment is well established and trusted by many as a simple yet accurate way to check a vehicle’s alignment. The company introduced this technology with the launch of its green laser system at the end of 2023.
With many industries, including construction and surveying, already adopting the benefits a green laser with great success, Supertracker felt it was a system that could benefit the wheel alignment market. Green lasers are visible in a much wider range of light conditions, making them effective for indoor and outdoor work all year round, as well as being able to travel over longer distances. They also offer clarity and precision due to their brightness, all important factors in environments requiring pinpoint accuracy. Supertracker is the only place you can buy a green laser wheel alignment system and has already sold many machines in the UK since its launch at the end of last year, apparently with positive customer feedback.
With many garages needing documentation as evidence of completed work to provide to customers (as well as for insurance purposes), computerised wheel alignment machines represent the most popular technology to address this requirement. Supertracker offers one of the most iconic CCD systems in the market, renowned for its simplicity and reliability. The user-friendly operating system, has an exhaustive vehicle database (which can be updated twice a year) to ensure you can meet the demands of the majority of vehicles that come through the door.
The company has evolved is popular 6 sensor STR130 and the 8 sensor STR420 CCD machines, enabling genuine choice to meet customer’s needs. Operating a more powerful Windows PC and remote access availability, its computerised system can meet the demands of a busy workshop and is available with a touchscreen monitor as an option. It is available with the traditional hang on system with 24” hangers as standard and the option of low spoiler hangers.
Supertracker now also offers the CCD system with 3-point clamps, which is an ideal solution for lowered vehicles. Supertracker is not only investing in product innovation, but also in its people. With the launch of a new 3,000 sq ft wheel alignment training studio, it is committed to the internal development of its national field engineers and head office staff – as well as now being able to offer a dedicated space to demonstrate their wheel alignment offering and range to customers.
For customers who want to look beyond computerised wheel alignment, it can offer Beissbarth 3D technology through Straightset. The wheel alignment range from Beissbarth is said to be one of the most advanced and innovative systems in the world. Offering state of the art 3D wheel alignment systems from the Easy 3D+ a high speed, high precision, and easy to use 3D technology with traditional cabinet, monitor, printer and wheel clamps, to the most compact web-best technology of the Q.Lign reducing required space and increasing efficiencies.
