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Car is pulling to the left, even after alignment.

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Old 04-02-16, 12:35 AM
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Default Car is pulling to the left, even after alignment.

Like the title says my 08 gs460 is pulling to the left, the steering wheel has to be slightly to the left for me to go straight, if I straighten the wheel out it goes off to the right, it has only been doing this the past two weeks or so. I went to Lexus and they agreed it was pulling and so they did an alignment, drove home, no change whatsoever, so I'm wondering what else it could be.
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Is it pulling hard or just slightly?

1: Could be a sticking brake caliper on one side
2: Tires can also be rotated from L to R some tires may pull
3: Bad alignment or bad bushing
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Just slightly but definately noticeable, I did recently switch my snow tires to my summer tires and am thinking that could possibly be the cause, I'm going to have them rotate the tires and see if it changes sides
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Had this happen on my other set of wheels too. My "new" tires (old tires i had put in storage) had already worn unevenly and caused the car to pull to the right. When i flipped left to right, the car pulled to the left. Alignment was fine as well.
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have the same problem! but to be fair it could be the roads since they sort of slant to the right (america we drive on right side)
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Rotated the front tires and it didn't change the pull at all, really wondering what it could be, I thought possibly a sticking caliper but my brakes seem to be working fine, maybe one of my front struts is wearing out or something, I do have the adaptive shocks.
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