I hit a small divider a couple of months ago and needed 2 new struts, tie rod, and a left control arm.

I had all this done at Nissan, they did an alignment also. The car stays pulling to the right, I had them redo the alignment and it stayed the same, today I went to firestone and used my lifetime alignment and had another one. The car is still pulling to the right, anyone have any idea what this could be?

Thanks in advance.

 

do they give you a print out of the alignment specs? if so, how do the readings look? t

 

They didn't give it to me, last time at another firestone they did. I am going to call and ask.

Their printer is broken, he did tell me the car is dead-on with the specs. After work I am going to recheck the tire pressure.

Any other ideas what it could be pulling the car to the right?

 

cool....check your print out and it will tell you where the problem is....if toe camber and caster are all within spec, and its still pulling to the right....then I really don't know what it could be? Maybe your rim/tire has something to do with it? thats the only other thing I can think of right now...check your tire pressure for sure....I had 20psi in my mom's camry and it was pulling to the right...the left tire had 35psi....

oh yeah, how much did you get your lifetime alignment for?

 

$159.99

He told me the alignment is dead on, so I'm guessing the printout will look good, even though I'll probably never get it. I think the tire pressure is good but I am going to re-check it, I checked it last nite.

 

yeah check the air pressure.....if it's within spec...i dunno what else could cause it to pull.....how hard does it pull? have you considered a damaged rim? I'm not an alignment expert, but i know a damaged rim can cause the car to not drive straight

 

I've had similar problems with a bad ball joint being the cause. Usually the ball joint is included with the control arm. Make sure it wasn't reused. Also the other side may need to be replaced too. I say that only because you said you got 2 new struts so perhaps there was damage to both sides of the car?

 

I just had some new rims/tires mounted and the EXACT same thing happened to me. I am going for a third opinion alignment tomorrow. Seems very odd that it is supposedly within spec yet the car still pulls to the right.