Car pulls left

[Max-Eclipse]

Ok, my car pulls to the left pretty bad... and it started after i got a tie rod and wheel bearing replaced on front drivers side and had the car aligned...

is it just a bad alignment job or is it likely something else?

thx

 

[TurboDSM86]

did they give you a print out of alignment? if they did look at caster and toe, those are likely your 2 angles that will cause a pull. when they replaced your tie rod end they should have aligned it as you said.

toe - pulls to the most positive side, needs a fairly large diference in sides to make a pretty noticible difference

caster - pulls to the least positive side, will cause a pull.

check your numbers if they gave you a print out, perhaps they did a toe and go alignment or bent the strut somehow while replacing your wheel bearing. that would throw caster off.

 

[Max-Eclipse]

When they pulled the wheel off i was out there, and the two guys (the owner and the dude doing the work) were like, "Your gonna need to replace your struts too... they are gettin bad."

So could that be it? Though its kinda weird that it wasn't pulling before then and all of a sudden it is...

and, they didn't give me a printout

 

[TurboDSM86]

that could be, they could have tweaked them or what not. its definately a possiblity. i dont know enough to comment on that fully though

 

[Max-Eclipse]

alright... ill look into that.

thanks