David I think you are right about the bad tire. This was my experience, I drove the wife's SDL one day and had to fight a right pull for 80 miles. I swapped her right front with a new tire on my SDL's left rear. Her car is now great and I feel a slight vibration in the driver's seat of my car.
Sounds like our problems were the same. Good luck with it. Harry Watkins Newton, MS 86 SDL Silver 85 300D Euro 86 SDL Gold 81 240D manual trans ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: [MBZ] Pulling to one side after tire rotation > As I mentioned before, yesterday I took my car to Les Schwab for a tire > rotation and brake inspection. When I got it back, it was pulling to > the right, and it was too late to take it back that day. Today it > wasn't raining, so I decided to do a little troubleshooting on my own. > > Checked the tire pressures. They were all wrong, of course, so I > corrected them. Took the car out for a drive, and it still pulled hard > to the right. I've also got a new vibration in the steering wheel at > speeds above 60 mph. > > I put my hands to the wheel vents after a freeway run, and none of the > brakes were noticably hotter than the others, so it's not a dragging brake. > > At this point, I suspect I have a bad tire that wasn't as obvious when > it was on the rear. For a while I'd had an odd vibration from the rear > at certain speeds. It was a vibration at 45 mph, and at 25 mph it felt > like the rear of the car was squirming side-to-side slightly. I never > figured out what it was. I wonder if a slipped belt in one of the tires > would cause those symptoms on the rear, and a pull on the front? > > At this point, the next logical step would be to swap each front tire > out with the spare, to see if the problem goes away, but that's a lot of > work and it looks like it's about to start raining again. I think I'll > take the car to the tire shop on Tuesday and let them scratch their > heads over it.
