Sk8Surfr

So, I took the car to the dealer 3 weeks ago to do an alignment when I bought the car because it was pulling

They informed me because my tires were worn and a rim was bent it would still pull to the right.

4 days later I got 4 brand new tires and all rims checked/straightened (2 were bent).

It pulled exactly the same way.

Took it back - they 'rotated tires to correct radial pull' - which I know was the half *** way to not DO anything.

I'm taking it back tomorrow - asking for a printout before/after (got one first time, not second)

Are there 'good' specs that are recommended on the forum?

My front specs looked ok last time:
Toe:
L-.03 R-.04
Total-.07

Rear I'm not so sure:
Toe:
L-.14 R-.11
Total toe- .25

17gs400

Makes sure look at the print out and see if the caster or camber is off.
I mean ur rims were bent because of impacted and if you hit something hard enough to bend ur rims I'm sure the caster could push back and cause ur car to pull.

mong

iTrader: (4)

They're decent spec but some may say 0 degree front toe is best for daily driving.

coverchian

Did you get any red marks (before and after the alignment)? Generally speaking, red marks are not good. They should be adjusted and fixed.

Jeff Lange

iTrader: (1)

Get the print-out with the specs on it. You'll be able to see what, if anything, is out.

Hopefully when you damaged the wheels nothing else was damaged.

Jeff

Shahryar

I'm dealing with this now. I've talked about it in some other threads here. In my '08 IS 350 my car's been pulling to the left hard. I'm not sure if it's been doing this since I put my problematic Hankook V12 Tires on in May (more on this later - this is it's own issue), or if it's been happening since earlier - perhaps after I had my alignment done in February? Or after I put my sway bars in in May?

I took my car to a place with the Hunter GSP9700 machine and we went through each wheel together to determine that both my left tires were bad and my front right rim was bent (because the rim was bent, we do not know yet if the front right tire is bad, but since the front left tire was good, perhaps the right front tire is good too).

New Hankook tires have arrived thanks to Hankook working with me regarding warranty and a new replacement rim was ordered off of ebay today.

I'm planning on doing 3 rounds of testing-

1) replacing the rear tires and the bent rim
2) If that doesn't do anything, switching the front two tires
3) If that doesn't do anything, going for my alignment again - from a different place then where I recently went to.

The alignment was done in Feb and after my tires were put on in May and I noticed the pull (along with some other bad ride issues I assume related to the bad tires), I took the car back in June to have the alignment done again. They said the left toe was really off and adjusted for free. but I'm still dealing with pull.

Attached is my alignment sheet from the second visit.

This is my fear.

Sango

iTrader: (10)

Looks like things could be still fine tuned.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2629/align2.jpg

If you see mine, the numbers between the right side and left side are much tighter.

DCoolBeans

If you bent your rims then the caster gets out of wack. Usually speed bumps will mess up caster too. You might have slight bends in your control arms. That can make it impossible to get a perfect alignment

Sango

iTrader: (10)

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Yes, I would agree, if this is the case - this should of been detected by the person performing the alignment to make the necessary repairs before going any further.

DCoolBeans

You'd be surprised....Well its worth a shot bringing it up.

I don't think his caster should be that off from left to right. They should be the same