Alignment
5/11/14 | 08:42 PM
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From: Stockton
Alignment
What degree should I be at in front right and left side? I recently installed some new rims and my perfect alignment ended up not being so perfect. Ice taken it back to firestone twice and both times they just can't get it right. Now when I drive, I have to hold the wheel slightly to the left a bit about an 8th of an inch to go strait and if I let go of the wheel it will pull to the right, nor dramatically, but enough to notice. I hope I'm making sense and please any feed back would be great.
5/12/14 | 09:15 PM
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From: the beautiful "Shenandoah Valley of Virginia"
What lanes have you tried it in?
Not sure how "hard" it pulls to right, but if a car is aligned for flat roads, the road crown will cause a pull to the right .... and if one were to drive to left of the crown, like many Interstates in the left lanes, it'll often pull slightly left for same reason .... gravity.
Not sure how "hard" it pulls to right, but if a car is aligned for flat roads, the road crown will cause a pull to the right .... and if one were to drive to left of the crown, like many Interstates in the left lanes, it'll often pull slightly left for same reason .... gravity.
5/12/14 | 09:55 PM
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new wheels AND tires, or just wheels? if just wheels, might try swapping from left to right- found some tires dont like rotation reversed...
our old windstar went in for a recall(tie rods) got it back, alignment was way off, pulling hard- dealer said caster-camber split was slightly off, correcting would reuire drilling/rewelding upper mounts- I said not unless you wrecked it, as it was fine prior (van was only a few months old).
I took it as-is to local NTB, they had a good mechanic I trusted more than the dealer, he checked it- barely in spec, but said way it was off, it should pull slightly the other way- then he said I bet they swapped the tires... he switched left to right, was back to same as before.
he called it 'ply-steer' said radials especially on mcpherson front ends, can gradually develop a pull bias, and reversing the rotation can make them act weird- especially if the car has a little offset for road crown(often they intentionally align to minimize that), reversing combines with the split can really make them pull- ours was one of the worst he'd seen though, like near 90 degrees of the wheel off! swapping the tires fixed it, replaced the tires a couple years later, alignment was still in spec, still just barely...
our old windstar went in for a recall(tie rods) got it back, alignment was way off, pulling hard- dealer said caster-camber split was slightly off, correcting would reuire drilling/rewelding upper mounts- I said not unless you wrecked it, as it was fine prior (van was only a few months old).
I took it as-is to local NTB, they had a good mechanic I trusted more than the dealer, he checked it- barely in spec, but said way it was off, it should pull slightly the other way- then he said I bet they swapped the tires... he switched left to right, was back to same as before.
he called it 'ply-steer' said radials especially on mcpherson front ends, can gradually develop a pull bias, and reversing the rotation can make them act weird- especially if the car has a little offset for road crown(often they intentionally align to minimize that), reversing combines with the split can really make them pull- ours was one of the worst he'd seen though, like near 90 degrees of the wheel off! swapping the tires fixed it, replaced the tires a couple years later, alignment was still in spec, still just barely...
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