just got an alighment awhile back. great place and they got it dead on.

ps-all stock suspension parts.

anywaise.. my drive way is pretty steep and has one of the rain gutter curbs aswell.

so i got to take it at an pretty good angel.

i go in the same way and come out the same way on my driveway.

after awhile.. the steering wheel is crooked to the left if i steer my car striaight.

and if i put the steerig wheel striahgt.. the car will steer to the right.


at first it was straight! but is this due to the driveway?

 

nope, not at all unless your hitting it at high speed.

 

Yes. You may want to lease the neighbors driveway. Probably better.

 

Its may not be completely the driveways fault...

but i have seen alignment techs not tighten jam nuts (front) or not tighten/torque down the eccentric washer bolts (rear)...

I say go get it aligned and WATCH Them, ensure the rear eccentric washer nuts are tightened/torqued down and as a safety measure you can get a marker/sharpie and mark the eccentric washers so you have a reference as to where they should be........if its off again you can check to see if the washers have slipped...

I experience my eccentric washers slip after track events.....i have since made "LOCK OUT" washers to prevent this.

Mark eccentric washers like so:


Lock out washers i made are attached below in case anyone is curious..

-J

 

YOur driveway should not affect your alignment. Take it back maybe they didn't tighten the tie rods enough.

 

yeah exactly.....

but i would bet money its not the tie rods and its actually the rear eccentric washers, when they are off, the do a number on the steering.....

steering wheel wont be centered, car wont track straight.....etc..those slip quite easily....and backing in and out of a driveway slowly means all the weight of the car is aimed to one wheel at a time, or one more than another, etc.......when cornering and turning out the driveway...thats a lot of cornering load for those washers to slip - ya i see it happening...

-J

 

wow awsome help!

im gonna bring this up the the alighment shop!

thanks a bunch!