Alignment or camber
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 Nov 17 2012, 09:47 PM
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Most probably the technician did not center your steering wheel properly when doing the alignment. This mistake often happens when doing wheel alignment. That camber difference should not impact the steering too much as you described. Your technician most likely just trying to make more money from selling the camber nut to you.
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Nov 17 2012, 11:55 PM
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QUOTE(wilsonjack228 @ Nov 17 2012, 10:08 PM) I was looking at the steps he taken , He turn the steering left right quite a few times before centering it and locking it so shouldn't be , he only say that the current camber will make the car move to left most of the time . The mistake often happens when locking it where they accidentally move it off center just a bit, which is enough to give you that feeling. Once I personally had locked the steering myself as I was frustrated after coming back a few times complaining my steering never gets straight before.But the reading is less than 1' how could it be , very minimal effect wouldn't it be ? I always check on my tire wear , seems to be equal on all previous tyres which done about 37K.   |
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Nov 20 2012, 09:45 PM
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QUOTE(wilsonjack228 @ Nov 19 2012, 05:42 PM) well after I came back to complain about the steering not straight , the boss (i think) insisted its my camber but one of its service guy kind enough to take it for a spin then came back adjust both tie road without using the machine and say its all he can do . Well he did what he could so , i take his word all tried it . it is better than before but still not 100% straight , still need to turn abit to the right to move straight and the car tends to drift to the left after u let go ... Well sorry to tell you but unfortunately your alignment guy probably just did not do properly and don't want to spend more time and effort to accommodate your claim. Btw it's typical for alignment shop to be like that. You just have to take note never to come back there again.   thinking of maybe find a manual alignment shop to do it later  any suggestion perhaps ?My suggestion is maybe just leave with it for a while if not so bad, until maybe another 5k or 10k km then do another alignment in other workshop. Don't go get someone else do it manually without proper machine cuz it might make it even worse. |
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