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View Poll Results: Does Your Car Pull to One Side? | |||
Pulls to the Left | 4 | 12.12% | |
Stays Straight | 21 | 63.64% | |
Pulls to the Right | 8 | 24.24% | |
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll |
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Does Your Car Pull to One Side?
Through a full four-wheel alignment and two new sets of tires, my car has always pulled strongly to the right. Anyone else have this problem?
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Pull
Just curious....do you have aftermarket wheels?
Don
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Mine stays straight with the stockers, and pulls right with the 17's.
Mike |
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Re: Pull
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FMC alignment rack has wrong specs
My Dad noticed after an alignment, that the stored spec's on FMC alignment racks is wrong for the SVX. He wrote a letter to the right folks. (He used to work for FMC).
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mine pulled to right even with stocks. at the shop i set the alignment twice on my hunter machine still cant get the drift out
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Mine pulls to the right whe the road slants to the right and pulls to the left when the road slants to the left. What is it with the SVX being so damn sensitive to the angle of the road? I've never experienced this in any other car.
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You might get the impression that the car is fighting you, even just a little, because the SVX has pretty heavy steering at speed.
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The reason this happens is because of your WIDE tires. If you drive a stock civic with it's tiny tires, it won't pull much... if you drive a vette or an SVX, it'll pull wherever the road leans.
If you drive that same civic with wider tires, it'll pull more. - Rob |
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If you run lower profile tires, or have wider wheels, it'll pull more (to whichevery directionthe road is slanting). - Rob |
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dangit. I can't get the link to work. Anyway, go here: http://www.neons.org/faq/ then go to 3.6.11 It talks about 'wandering'. Last edited by Chicane; 03-24-2003 at 10:33 AM. |
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"Lastly, big rims with low-profile tires tend to wander, rather than track straight, as they are influenced by waves and bumps in the road surface". Note the key words..."big rims". Once you understand the physics behind it you will understand that it is the "big rims", not necessarily the corresponding wider tires that usually go with them, that cause the drifting situation, Rob. Those bigger rims, along with their wider offset are the cause. Remember that most of the Neon folks are going from 185/75/14 (or whatever) tires to 205/50/16 (or whatever) and there is a substantial increase in width (both rim and tire). When most SVX owners upgrade from the stock 225/50/16 they go to a 225/45/17 which has no change in tire width. If they notice an increase in wandering it is more likely due to a difference in wheel offset compared to the factory rims. Think about it and it will make sense to you
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