Wheel Alignment (again)..

[Ade B]

You really need to put new tyres on then have the car setup. If the alignment's out the front tyres can wear conically and the car will never go in a straight line

Nick Froome
www.w124.co.uk

Might just live with it for now, the fronts have a fair bit of life left..

If I need to put more than petrol in the car in the next 3 months its going off Beachy Head.., or I am...


Ade

 

[Ade B]

Well back from a 270 mile trip to Nottingham and back. Car is much improved, a bit quieter (could be my imagination), steering wheel centred and pull to left significantly reduced although still there a bit..

I'm suspecting the tyres, but overall am pleased to have the car back and running well..

Ade

 

[c240yaz]

Alignment is a longitudinally shared angle. Other than a perfect dynamic 0 toe any displacement is lateral and is not influenced by camber, toe as a force doesn't know what camber is.

Camber is conically compressive allowing the tyres to be individually aggravated by the road crown. The result of this is an "eventual drift" not a pull.

A camber pull is where the conical compression is not matched, meaning the tyres deformity favors the road crown accentuating the road crown hence the pull.

I disagree with you entirely on this. All time served mechanics know that if your wheel alignment is out, the car can PULL and wonder all over the road. Sorry.

 

[wheels-inmotion]

I disagree with you entirely on this. All time served mechanics know that if your wheel alignment is out, the car can PULL and wonder all over the road. Sorry.

If the fronts are toe'd out then the car can feel nervous on/off the bump but it won't sustain a pull.

Another explanation: If the car hits a curb knocking the alignment out by 6mm, as soon as the driver regains dead ahead the steering would be offline because the 6mm is now shared by both fronts with 3mm per side.

Wheel miss-alignment is the only angle that wears "both" the front tyres.