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Old Sep 30, 2012 | 03:53 PM
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I have a 240 Sedan that wants to go to the left, it has good tires up front and brand new tires in the rear and they seem to be inflated alright.

I've had the car taken in for an alignment and that was just fine, but the casters isn't quite right on a few of the wheels and they're not adjustable.

The steering wheel and the wheels will keep going straight but the car itself will go left, how can I fix this?
 
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Old Sep 30, 2012 | 05:36 PM
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Better than wanting to go right... The wheels actually cannot be going straight if the car is going left unless you got one helluva twisted chassis. How sharp is the left drifting anyway? Many times it appears like that but often there is always some road imperfections that cause the drift. My problem would be with the ALIGNMENT; if that was done and there are no problems, then you should not be having a major pull issue.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2012 | 06:48 PM
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Better than wanting to go right... The wheels actually cannot be going straight if the car is going left unless you got one helluva twisted chassis. How sharp is the left drifting anyway? Many times it appears like that but often there is always some road imperfections that cause the drift. My problem would be with the ALIGNMENT; if that was done and there are no problems, then you should not be having a major pull issue.
The leans a 2 on a 1-10 scale, what doesn't help me is that the roads around here are actually pretty bad.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2012 | 11:41 PM
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my sons 940SE wagon came with new offbrand tires 2 years ago (Nexxus or something?) and had a distinct pull to the right.... wheel alignment shop said the alignment was fine, and said the tires had bad plies. the pull was mild so we ignored it, and we ended up selling the car before we replaced those tires. new owner put new tires on it the day he bought it (old ones were bald) but I never heard back from him if that fixed the pull.
 
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