Yup we get reemed for the premium brand marketing and image. What BS! My local dealer wanted $160 for a four wheel alignment as well. What a rip off! I have never paid over $50 for a four wheel alignment.
However, cause our IS is so new, only the dealer has the oem specs for alignment and they will not give it up for free. Thus, I posted on clublexus.com and one of the moderators was nice enough to post the factory specs for toe and camber for our IS300.
So now, since I have those specs, I can go to my local alignment shop, which I have been going to for the past 3 years give them the specs and have them do the alignment for $48! I recently had this done, and one nice thing about our IS300 that I did not know was that we have adjustments for camber as well as toe. So if camber is out of adjustment, there is no need to constantly buy camber kits, like bmw's. Lexus engineers pretty nice cars, it's just a shame that the dealers are so greedy.
Here's the link for alignment specs for future reference. How's life in MN? My bro use to live out there when he was in Med School in ST. Paul. Unfortunately, he's back in so. cal. constantly bugging me
http://www.clublexus.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18953