Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> "Nomen Nescio" > wrote in message
> ...
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>>Car pulls hard to right. Front wheels switched left-to-right and
>>right-to-left. Now car pulls hard to left.
>>
>>When fronts are rotated to rear, car is neutral.
>>
>>This tells me the pull was not due to misalignment, but due to tires
>>themselves. How can tires make such a difference?
>>
>
>
> Tires, espically cheap ones, sometimes have rubber that isn't a uniform
> density. As a result, in your case the tire on the side that the car pulls
> to has a smaller diameter than the other tire since it's worn down faster.
> You can also have different regions of the tire wear faster due to the
> same problem.
>
> Ted
Swapping the tires from one side to the other should immeidately
pinpoint if the tires themselves are causing a pulling problem for
whatever reason.
Bill Putney
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