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Drifting Left

Discussion in 'Stop, Drop & Roll' started by |-Goku-|, Feb 21, 2008.

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    Drifting Left

    Heres something strange, hope you all could help me with this.

    When I have my Steering wheel Perfectly straight, as in the Toyota Emblem on the Steering wheel is centered and the top of the logo is pointing up. my car will Drift to the left, really quick to, like im changing lanes. But when I have the Steering will turned to the Right a little bit, meaning the top of the Toyota emblem is pointing to the Right. the car goes straight. When I left go of the Wheel and the Power steering centers the wheel, it starts drifting again to the left. I took it to Toyota to get it checked out, and they said they checked every Suspension part and said that nothing was loose or bent. I had them do an Alignment and that still didn't help. They told me it was my Tires. I got my Tires and Rims at Les Shwab which are 17, I think its like 205/40/17. I think thats right. But Les Shwab says my tires look fine. One thing I do notice is that the Car in the rear bottoms out quite often, and they even did that on Stock Rims. Does anyone have any Suggestions for me? I'm going back into Toyota on Wednesday of Next week to have them look at it again. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as my girlfriend drives the car to, and I feel this to be a safety issue.

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    hummm... have you ever hit a curb or something like it, you may have put off your K-frame its kinda hard to see and wont mess up your alignment as the machine sees it but can put off the wheel.. or ou just need to straighten your wheel, as for the rears, I would say get new struts in the rear.. they seem blown out, or stop jumping the thing..
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    I actually have hit a curb, pretty hard actually. ya I figured my struts where out. so I will get those replaced. How do I straighten the wheel also? Thanks for the quick replies
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    when your at the dealership have them re-do your alignment and set you steering... just tell them that it is off and they should be able to do it... and also tell them that when they did it the last time it didn't fix it... the entire goal of a shop is whats called FFV or fixed first visit, if they don;t have that score right then yeah bad news... :) so yeah struts and re align and it should work...
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