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AMGO Turnplate Set (No. 40101) Turnplates are the least glamorous thing in an alignment bay and close to the most important. Set No. 40101 is AMGO's, and its whole job is to let a vehicle's front wheels turn, slide and settle without fighting the floor — which is the difference between an alignment that reads true first time and one you chase for an hour. Alignment is delicate work, and in most shops it is also some of the most profitable work per bay-hour. Both of those facts point the same way: the equipment under the tyres is not the place to save money, because everything downstream of it — the readings, the adjustments, the rollback, the re-check — inherits whatever the plates do. What a turnplate actually does Park a vehicle on bare steel or concrete and the tyres grip. Every steering input, every suspension movement and every adjustment you make at the tie rod loads up against that grip instead of resolving itself, so the suspension sits somewhere slightly other than where it will sit on the road. The angles you then measure are the angles of a car under tension, not a car at rest. A turnplate removes that tension. The wheel sits on a plate that is free to rotate and to move, so the suspension settles where it wants to, the steering can be swung through its arc for caster measurement, and any change made at the adjuster shows up at the gauge instead of storing itself up in a twisted bushing. The plate is not helping you measure — it is removing the thing that was stopping you measuring. Why the quality of the plate shows up in the numbers Two things separate a plate that works from one that annoys you. The first is how freely and how evenly it moves, because a plate that sticks and then releases will let a suspension jump to a new position halfway through a job. The second is rollback — the routine of rolling the vehicle back and forth to settle everything and confirm the readings repeat. A shop that trusts its rollback moves through the job; a shop that does not re-does the measurement, and re-doing measurements is how an alignment bay quietly loses its margin. That is the case the manufacturer makes for these plates, and it is worth reading it as a workflow claim rather than a specification. Faster rollbacks and readings that repeat are what turn alignment from a slow job into a bookable one. Where they go, and what they do not do Turnplates sit under the steered wheels, on the runway or in the plate pockets of an alignment lift, and they stay in the bay as part of the setup rather than travelling with a particular vehicle. They do not lift, they do not lock a vehicle in place, and they do not replace the wheel chocks, the lift's own locks or any part of the procedure in your alignment equipment's manual. Keep them clean: grit under a plate is the most common reason a good set starts to feel like a bad one. Perfect For Alignment bays being set up from scratch, where the plates are part of the build rather than an afterthought. General repair shops adding alignment as a service and looking for the piece of equipment that makes it repeatable. Fleet and municipal workshops where tyre wear is a real budget line and alignment is preventive maintenance, not a retail sale. Serious home and race workshops doing their own corner-weighting and geometry work. What is in the box The item is sold as a set under part number 40101. We do not publish the piece count or the individual plate dimensions for this set, and we would rather tell you that than print a number we cannot stand behind — ask us before you order and we will confirm the contents against the manufacturer's current documentation. Specifications Part number 40101 Type Turnplate set, wheel alignment Sold as A set Brand AMGO Hydraulics Collection Delivery or warehouse pickup Certification and compliance No third-party safety listing is published for this accessory, and this page does not imply one. Where a lift carries such a listing it covers the lift as the manufacturer configured and tested it; accessories used in the bay alongside it are assessed separately, if at all. If an insurer, a fleet standard or a local inspection regime governs your alignment bay, confirm what it requires before ordering — we will supply whatever manufacturer documentation exists to help you answer it. Delivery and pickup Available for delivery anywhere in the lower 48 or for collection from the warehouse, whichever suits your schedule. Delivery cost is calculated against your address at checkout rather than guessed in advance. Check the packaging over before you sign for it and record any damage on the delivery paperwork while the driver is present — plates arrive as machined steel, and a bent or gouged plate is a good deal harder to argue about once the paperwork is signed clean. Warranty Warranty terms and the claim procedure are on our warranty claims page; ask us for the current manufacturer document if the terms bear on your buying decision. If a plate fails or seizes, photograph it in place and get in touch before you strip it down. Dismantling a component before a claim is opened is the single most common way a valid claim turns into a rejected one.