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- From: dilmore@eastrg2.cray.com (Robert James Dilmore)
- Subject: Re: Steering wheel angle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.102659.7597@walter.cray.com>
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- Sender: dilmore@eastrg2 (Robert James Dilmore)
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <ALAVIGNE.93Jan11154948@bmerh930.bnr.ca>
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 10:26:59 CST
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- In article <ALAVIGNE.93Jan11154948@bmerh930.bnr.ca>, alavigne@bmerh930.bnr.ca (Andrew Lavigne) writes:
- |>
- |> I have a 1989 Civic Si. I brought my car for a D.O.T inspection at Canadian
- |> Tire (kinda like a K-Mart or Sears quick stop auto place) which I needed to
- |> transfer my car into my name from a lease company.
- |>
- |> After taking possession of my car, I soon noticed that when the car is
- |> travelling in a straight line, the steering wheel is no longer 'straight'.
- |> The steering wheel was *perfectly* 'straight' earlier when I had driven the
- |> car to the garage parking lot for the inspection.
- |>
- |> Upon talking to the service guy afterwards, he said that only an alignment
- |> could have changed the steering wheel angle. Perhaps. Whatever the reason,
- |> the steering wheel angle has definitely changed.
- |>
- |> Anyone out there know if it is possible to have the steering wheel angle
- |> changed without an alignment?? The car still tracks perfectly; it doesn't
- |> pull off to the side.
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |> Andrew
- |> alavigne@bnr.ca
-
-
- What you are probably running into is called "radial pull" or "radial runout".
- I'll bet you 2.5 cents that if you swap tires from one side to the other the
- car will now pull in the oppposite direction. Tires are defective if this is the
- case, if they don't know what they are doing it will be hard to explain to them.
- Don't allow them to just move them to the rear as this will just allow the
- warrenty to elapse before you rotate the tires, and then they say "It must be
- the way you drive" or some nonsense.
-
-
- Robert Dilmore
- dilmore@cray.com
-