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11-03-2006, 02:12 PM

f550maranello2

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This Sucks!!! Car drifts Left

Ok this is really starting to **** me off... .had 3 alignments done and the car still drifts to the left...

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Brand new continental extreme contacts 1 month old.. (dealer inspecte ok)
Brand new nissan inner and outer tie rods
Brand new nissan wheel bearings..
Brand new axles, ball joints, sway bar links and control arm bushings

There is no play in any components... but the car still drifts a lot to the left... now i notice it drift more when i accelerate!! the brakes are new as well and they dont drag....

Somebody please shed some light one me... this really sucks....

11-03-2006, 02:25 PM

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Do you mean its pulling to the left? Sounds like who ever is doing your alignments isnt centering your stearing wheel properly. Everytime I align my car it always pulls either to the left or right because there is so much play in my stearing rack that I cant get the wheel centered.

11-03-2006, 02:41 PM

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Maybe its time to replace the rack & pinnion bushings?

11-03-2006, 02:41 PM

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Do you have a print out of your alignment numbers?

11-03-2006, 03:05 PM

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Hey Sebastian,
Have you tried bleeding your front brakes

11-03-2006, 03:18 PM

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yep i have a print out from the second time they aligned it..

geo yea the brakes have been bleed before hand...

11-03-2006, 03:19 PM

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the worst part is that nothing seems to drag... and the steering wheel is completely centered.... there isnt any weird play inthe steering rack either...

11-03-2006, 03:36 PM

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Hmm, Ill post up mine numbers when I get home. I just installed camber bolts which is something you may want to consider.

11-03-2006, 03:48 PM

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somethime tires have torn nilon or steel belt inside.change their places.

11-03-2006, 03:56 PM

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what sucks is that the tires are directional....

11-03-2006, 03:57 PM

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You camber is a tad much try to get that more twards -.5 or -.3 and make sure it's even on both sides. Everything else looks fine.

11-03-2006, 03:58 PM

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that is the second alignment.. i had a third and we fixed that.. i watched my friend do it right infront of me... everything was dead on...

11-03-2006, 04:00 PM

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like i said when i accelerate it seems worse... when i let go of the gas it drives almost straight after the third alignment...

11-03-2006, 04:22 PM

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Pay not attention to the intial. He installed the camber bolts first and then put it on the rack.

11-03-2006, 04:36 PM

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Hey Sebastian,
Have you tried bleeding your front brakes

I thought when you brake it drifts to the left, you may want to check your alignment again.

Something on the install on all your parts is not right!

Who did the install/alignment?

11-03-2006, 06:42 PM

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Well the first 2 alignments were done by Woodfield nissan.. then my buddy that works in acura did the third one.... its not an alignment problem i dont think

11-03-2006, 06:58 PM

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what sucks is that the tires are directional....

blind guess, but could they have put on one side backwards?

11-03-2006, 08:47 PM

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Replace the steering rack bushings, thats pretty much the only thing left you can do.

11-03-2006, 09:12 PM

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you should consider any drifting you car does at all, a good thing lmao..

11-03-2006, 09:22 PM

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no the tires are on correctly... im gonna use my friends wheels and see waht happens...

the steering rack bushings look good... but if anybody can shine some light here....

like 2 months ago i was playing around with the bushings on the steering rack.. now i moved the rack a little to the passanger side..
after that the car started to pull left... i took it in and they told me to replace the inner tie rods outer and the wheel bearing onthe drivers side..
took it back and they did the alignment and it pulled.. i took back in and they did the alignment again... but heres my question.. if the rack did move to the right and they did the alignment with the rack moved when i drive the rack is gonna try to even itself out and pull left?

11-03-2006, 09:30 PM

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.. you were supposed to laugh, you know ha ha. anyways you'll get it worked out man.

11-03-2006, 09:36 PM

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yea i hope.. this car is nothing but trouble ...

11-04-2006, 04:51 AM

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how hard are you accelerating? cause the max is FWD so you might just be experiencing torque steer?

11-04-2006, 10:48 AM

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how hard are you accelerating? cause the max is FWD so you might just be experiencing torque steer?

not when going straight

11-04-2006, 02:48 PM

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its not torque steer.. im talking about normal driving here.. this is the most frustrating thing ever.. i accelerate normal and it pulls to the left... its nothing draggin cuz i checked the front brakes and even replaced the driverside caliper... this sucks

11-04-2006, 05:33 PM

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Did you figure it out yet?
Try rotating your tires and see if that helps.

11-04-2006, 05:36 PM

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have you ever hit any curbs or hit any major pot holes or anything major that you can remember, because it might be one of your control arms, my last car was a subaru legacy and i hit a curb real hard in the winter and bent one of my rear right control arm causing it to drift left, maybe thats whats wrong with it, sounds like it to me.

11-04-2006, 05:44 PM

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It looks like you just replaced the control arm bushings & components, not the entire arm! So, that may be it. Also, like I stated in my last post, try rotating your tires.

11-04-2006, 05:46 PM

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the few people that i have talked to (my shop teacher who is getting ready to retire and has a lot of expirience) say that you should really sit in your car when they align it or it will throw it off a little? At the dealership i work at

they won't even let any customers in the shop, much less sit in their cars while they work on them.

11-04-2006, 07:07 PM

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i dont see how that would make a difference... but nothing is bent.. it drove fine untill i moved theh rack

11-04-2006, 07:17 PM

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Then the only thing to do, is move it back!

11-04-2006, 07:21 PM

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i dunno... i talked to a couple of people and they said it makes no difference....

11-04-2006, 08:00 PM

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a bent control arm would change caster because the strut tower takes very little of the force(mechanical advantage). this is not the case.

11-04-2006, 08:08 PM

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werd......

11-06-2006, 07:53 PM

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Dude - I'm going thru the same exact problem, and it's been driving me totally off my rocker!
I just recently got new Shocks/Springs, and since then it's been doing it.
I have a couple of people trying to work on it to figure it out, so if I hear anything concrete, I'll let you know ... and if you come up w/ something, please let me know.

11-06-2006, 10:26 PM

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werd this is really pissing me off now.. im gonna destroy my tires if i keep doing this... im gonna take a loot at the steering rack in the morning...

11-07-2006, 12:10 PM

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i have something close to the same problem but mines is when im on the highway and slightly turning and i hit a pot hole or bump the car jerks me to the size im turning what could that be if anyone knows or had the same things happen?