Never heard of a radial pull but it seems that they should have informed Art
that there's another issue than to switch tires.

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"maxpower" > wrote in message
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>
> "NJ Vike" > wrote in message
> ink.net...
>> Art,
>>
>> I'm not sure I get it.
>>
>> "the car drifted slightly so they brought it back in and switched
>> front wheels and that solved the problem"
>>
>> Why would they have to switch wheels for the car to steer straight and
>> not
>> drift? Something still doesn't sound right.
>>
>> One idiot lowered the air pressure on one of my friend's front tires to
> get
>> the car to go straight. I'm afraid to let anyone touch the alignment on
> any
>> vehicle.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Art" > wrote in message
>> ink.net...
>> > For those paying attention, after getting the clunk fixed (turned out
>> > to
>> > be a inner tie rod bushing), the more competent dealer left the
>> > steering
>> > wheel crooked. So I took it to Merchant's tire, etc store after
> checking
>> > with them that they would listen to my concerns about doing the
> alignment
>> > correctly (as described by Bill, Steve and others here). So I printed
> out
>> > the advice previously posted here, highlighted the important stuff and
>> > took the car over.
>> >
>> > They said they understood the issue and only a moron would do it wrong
> and
>> > they weren't morons. In any case they did the alignment and took a
>> > road
>> > test. The front end was indeed off, according to them and after they
>> > aligned it, the car drifted slightly so they brought it back in and
>> > switched front wheels and that solved the problem. Car is now properly
>> > aligned, steering wheel is straight and the car tracks straight.
>> >
>> > By the way they said that they fix a clunk once per month in their shop
> in
>> > these cars caused by bad bushing in the left inner tie rod. In their
>> > opinion it is being cooked by exhaust heat because a pipe is too close
> to
>> > it. I haven't heard that theory before. One of the guys owns an
>> > Intrepid. At 50k miles he replaced the steering rack. It now has 100k
>> > miles on it and nothing else has gone bad on it except for the weather
>> > stripping. I told him Bill's suggestion of cutting the weather
> stripping
>> > and buying one additional piece for splicing.
>> >
>>
>>
> That is a common problem with tires. Its a radial tire pull. What should
> have been done next was to have the tires road force balanced to see if
> the
> tires were any good. The OP makes no mention of that being done
>
> Glenn Beasley
> Chrysler Tech
>
>