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6.0goat
09-28-2007, 10:07 PM
Need some advice. Have an 06 with approx. 9,300 miles. The steering wheel would vibrate back and fourth about 60 mph so I rotated the tires. It appears that this was the first rotation, you could actually see wear on the outside of the front tires but the rears look fine. Well, now I have this pull to the left. I have to hold my steering wheel a few degrees to the right just to go straight down the road. If I take my hands off the steering wheel, I get a gradual pull to left (if I'm in the right lane on hwy) and a pretty significant pull to the left if I'm on the left side of the hwy. Took it back to the shop and had a front end "alignment" done. Nothing has changed. The tire shop is telling me it's the tires...sheesh they only have 9K miles on them! My next step is to change the two fronts around and see if it pulls to the right I suppose. Anyone else had alignment issues?

Orbit Orange
09-28-2007, 11:08 PM
Sounds like radial "pull", where one of the tires tends to pull the car left or right. One of the tires on my wifes GTP has the same problem. I had it aligned several times and it would still do it. Swapped the tire I thought was doing it from front to back and it cured the problem. Problem is if I swap it back it will have the same pull. (It's a directional tire). Try swapping it to the other side and see what happens. If it's still bad get another tire or ditch the crummy stockers for some new rubber. Amazing what a new set of sticky tires can do. :) Good luck.