Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
first start with swapping the 2 front tires from side to side, if the
pull moves to the left, you have tire pull.
I got off work early enough today that I could take the car back to the
tire shop, about an hour before they closed. They did exactly that.
Sure enough,
they're the only tire
shop I've seen use an honest-to-goodness torque wrench on the lug bolts
of my car.
That's true. Whenever I've taken a car in there, they've always tightened
them with an impact wrench, but once the tires were lowered to the ground,
they torqued them by hand with a torque
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:55:47 -0800
From: David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Pulling to one side after tire rotation
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Kaleb C. Striplin
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:55:47 -0800 David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm impressed with one thing about Les Schwab -- they're the only tire
shop I've seen use an honest-to-goodness torque wrench on the lug bolts
of my car.
Discount Tire in Santa Fe does, too.
Craig
Peter Frederick wrote:
Almost certainly a bad tire, especially since changing the pressure
makes a difference.
Actually, changing the pressure made no discernable difference.
Check the tires from excess wear on one side of one tire -- if you have
differential tread wear on one tire, or
first start with swapping the 2 front tires from side to side, if the
pull moves to the left, you have tire pull.
David Brodbeck wrote:
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
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.
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Pulling to one side after tire rotation
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Dave,
since you mentioned you had a vibration in the rear before the rotation it
sounds like you had a tire
You do not say what car you have so I have no input other than what
happened to my buddy and his 79 450SL 2 wk ago -- pulling to the right,
I aired up the tires properly, drove it and was pulling much harder.
Hmmm. Front tires were wearing and we were going to move them around
until this
rumor has it that David wrote:
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
Dave,
since you mentioned you had a vibration in the rear before the rotation it
sounds like you had a tire that was has some cupping or a possible broken belt.
Check the front tires by running your hand along the inside of the tread and
you might be able to feel any slight distortion in the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave,
since you mentioned you had a vibration in the rear before the rotation it sounds like you had a tire that was has some cupping or a possible broken belt. Check the front tires by running your hand along the inside of the tread and you might be able to feel any
Almost certainly a bad tire, especially since changing the pressure
makes a difference.
Check the tires from excess wear on one side of one tire -- if you have
differential tread wear on one tire, or worse, the tread snakes as
you rotate the wheel, the belts are out of it. Don't drive it
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