Pull to the right even after alignments
09-19-2005, 06:49 PM
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Pull to the right even after alignments
Ok i got my accord.. totally stock.. 2 days after I had it .. it started a slight pull to the right. I had an alignment done and it didn't change anything. I got new tires and stilla pull. I lowered the car... realign and still a pull. I can't find anything bent.. Any ideas what it might be.
09-20-2005, 09:44 AM
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Re: Pull to the right even after alignments (Woody150)
did they check your balljoints? a loose tie rod balljoint is never going to get you a good alignment.
09-22-2005, 09:17 AM
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Re: Pull to the right even after alignments (Woody150)
what size rims are you running and how are the road where you live. Where im at the roads are bad and the have grooves in them. I was running some 16s and they rode like **** because of the roads. When i switched them out to my 14 snow tires for winter, my car road fine. I think the bigger rims are pushed around by the grooves in the road more easily, thats why it all ways pulled me to one side more then the other. Dont know it this helped but thats what happened to me also.
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Re: Pull to the right even after alignments (Woody150)
the right front caliper is clamping down harder than your left front - OR - maybe just your right rear brake is working - i.e. if your left rear brake is not engaging it will cause your car to rotate to the right.
10-03-2005, 05:47 PM
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Re: Pull to the right even after alignments (Woody150)
You might be expereinceing "radial pull" which sometime happens when two radial tires just don't like being next to each other and cause the car to pull one way. We used to run into this periodically when I was in the tire business 15 years ago. The test is to cross rotate them (switch the front left to right) and go drive the same road again. If it is radial pull, then the car should pull to the other side. If it does this, then rotate the tire that is on the side that it pulls to fromthe front to the back on that side. But first check to confirm that the air pre ssure is the same on the tires as this is the simplest fix.
If you were experiencing this pull prior to installing new tires (wasn't clear) then I rather doubt it is racial pull.
If you were experiencing this pull prior to installing new tires (wasn't clear) then I rather doubt it is racial pull.
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