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Old May 21, 2004
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Thumbs down Front Spring Problem

I have had an onging problem with my steering wheel being slanted to the right on a straight road. I said to Honda that when my friend drives my car the steering wheel is fine. I am 230LBS, my friend 110LBS. I looked at the car and its lopsided. I can fit my hand sideways (4 fingers) (top of wheel and wheel well) on the passanger side, only 2 fingers on the driver side. It looks like the driver side has been lowered. This is why my wheel is off and that's why it pulls to the right even after 6 wheel alignments. Im glad I took my car to an independant dealer. My car has 16000KM and its a 03. This is absoultly crazy. Im taking it in Tuesday morning to have it replaced. When I went back to Honda today they did not know what to say. They handed me a free carwash ticket I guess to keep me quiet.
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The left side is lower then the right due to there being more weight on that side. Honda mentions this is this TSB: http://www.nhtsa.com/TSBScans/sb626720-sb626858.pdf

I noticed this on mine to once I got my car home. WTF heheh.
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Yeah wtf. The left side of my car is 1-1.5 fingers lower than the right.
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hmm...and i thought it was because i was parking on slopes. oh well...car drives straight for me though, so no big deal.
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My car does not drive straight, this tsb is bull **** as far as I am concerned. My family drives a 02 Altima and a 03 Murano and its not slanted to the right. It's an excuse. What gets to me is they can send men to the moon but they cant make a car that won't lean to the right?? wheres the logic in that????
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The logic is that NASA or whatever didn't invest all of its funds into Honda civic '01-'03 car leaning problems. That's the logic.

I'll bet you the space shuttle doesn't lean to the left.
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Well said. Call me crazy but as I was leaving the mall I saw a few civics I was checking the distance between the wheel and the wheel well, most of them were the same. This better get resolved on Tuesday. They know me very well, (I wonder why?) they have reserved a 04 Accord V6, for my rental car, cant wait to try it out.
 
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