For black-magic mystery, front-end alignment is right up there with air conditioning, starter-motor or alternator rebuilding, fuel injection, carburetor tuning, and automatic-transmission overhauls.

Since this is Car Craft, where do-it-yourself rules, we just know you secretly harbor an intense desire to get familiar with the basics of alignment and at least know what all those obscure terms mean ...

If you increase the offset from stock, moving the tire outboard from its stock position, you'll alter thescrub radius, affecting the way the tire makes the transition from straight ahead into a turn.