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Tire rotation problem
Isn't it always te simple things that get you in trouble?
As I may have mentioned, I did tire rotations and oil changes on both the SVX and Justy on Sunday. The SVX is probably okay - although I have to admit I haven't driven it. The Justy I drove to work today for the first time this week. It's drifting to the right pretty severely. All I did was rotate the tires and change the oil - WTF did I DO???
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Hit a pot hole sometime ago I guess. Time for a wheel alignment. Eh?
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Car drove straight before tire rotation. Car does not drive straight after tire rotation. But, you're probably right - the only thing to do is take it to be aligned.
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Rotation
Hi Nick, Just for fun, put the tires back where they were and see what happens. could be a bad belt on one tire or something not suspension related. Hope its something simple. Take care, BOBB
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It does sound like the alignment is out, and the tires took a set. You should definitely have the alignment checked. Even after the alignment gets reset, the car will still pull until the tires take a new set to the corrected alignment.
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First, you can eliminate oil change as a suspect for drifiting problem. It is not
Second, you should check tire pressure and wear patterns on you tires. A bad tire can pull to a side quite dramatically and its position (front/back) can affect the pull as well. |
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'It's a Justy - there's not a lot of air in a 12in tire to leak out.'
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You guys missed it all.
He put the SVX tires on one side of the Justy and vice versa.
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Obvious. You should have changed the tires, & rotated the oil.
Anytime. Ron. (Didja' hear about the absent minded park policeman? Yup - mounted his whistle & blew his horse).
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Our Justy has well over 185,000 miles on it and I don't remember EVER getting an alignment on it. I'm sure it tracks pretty bad but has never really had poorly worn tires.
(SVX is another story)
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