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Hey guys,

I dont know why but ever since I got my Summer rims put on, my car is pulling to the left really bad. If feels like my alignment is ****ed up... but just swapping Winter to Summer wheels shouldnt effect this...should it?

Ive checked my tire pressure and everything seems fine.



I did get a local shop to put everything back on the car (lights, rims etc) but Id hate to think that they screwed around with something.

I dont know WTF is going on.

 
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did you lose any kind of your balancing weights or something?

 
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No I dont think so, cause the ride is pretty smooth, no vibrations or anything. I just feel like if I let go of the wheel I am gonna head right for the gaurd rail. It totally feels like an alignment problem but I just dont understand why now all of the sudden after I get some company to throw my wheels on Ive got this problem. Weird eh?

 
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Well dude ideally you would want to get an alignment whenever you change your suspension setup or rims. I mean, if a decent size pothole is enough to throw you off (it is you know) then raising a car up, applying force to it (loosening then tightening lugs), then bringing it back down again MUST do something.
That said, I've never needed an alignment and I've removed/changed my wheels plenty of times. Take it back to where you had the rims installed and ask them what might be causing the problem.

 
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It could be uneven tread wear.
Did they rotate the positions of the rims/tires? (ie front to back/left to right)
or is it the same position as last yr?

 
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-tread wear
-alignment
-balance tires

 
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yeah dude i know it gets a lil' expensive but as soon as I pop the 17's on in the summer I get an alignment...

good luck buddy

 
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its just that u alignment was always off, just that with your winter tires, contact path is not as good as summer tires and werent as sticky as summer tires, and once u changet to better tires u can feel alignment is way off

 
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i've had the same problem.. then gotten an alignment

still had the problem

what kind of rubber do you have??

 
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Im running on Falcon Tires but I never noticed any alignment issues last season. What about you?

 
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it could have something to do with that directional tread bullshit. If you've got a rim on the left that should be on the right it might **** it up.... know what I mean?

 
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Yeah I thought of that last night and checked to make sure they were all facing the right direction. Im guessing that maybe the alignment got a little messed up during the Winter and Im only feeling it now cause I have the bigger wheels and tires on. Who knows??
Im taking the car in for an oil change tomorrow and Im gonna have them do the alignment as well. Hopefully I will be able to drive hands free after that. haha