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humfrz: i live in very small country. There are not many shops around, thus my observations might be wrong/too pessimistic, and experience non objective. But so far it's been like:
Dealerships imho most commonly do well only with stock stuff / stock parts / stock maintenance procedures and often botch things when one wishes something outside those bounds. They often also charge too much.
Tire shops and alikes .. if alignment is something like freebie or extra thrown in/offered alongside their main business, they have less motivation/less devoted time to do it pedantically right. They often also sell (tires) in big numbers to high customer counts, and have incentive to deal with customers quicker and care less if small count of them is left dissatisfied or if most don't care. They can reel more customers via main business, selling tires, by eg. slight price drops, then with offered high quality alignment job.
Performance shops, where customers turn to with those specific wishes to get wanted performance/handling change, specialize more on that. They also are more motivated to quality job to turn smaller count of customers to regular ones and gain free personal-advertising of them to customers' friends/relatives/acquaintances. Also they can advise/suggest/reason more performance oriented configurations according to their expertise of improving performance of client vehicles and according to what client wishes to get.
Of course, there can be exceptions to any of these type of places offering to check/tune alignment. Hence probably best bet would be browsing local forums and find shops/places that do quality job according to experiences of others and try few of them from gathered list, and if one is happy with service and prices, just stick with that place/those techs.
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