Three weeks ago my car was always pulling ever so slightly to the left. I took it to a wheel alignment who put the car reg in but my car didn't come up automatically. We had to select Nissan/almera/00-06/1.5 petrol, then there were 4 items. two mathed my vin, one for r15 wheels and one for r16 wheels. Now when I look to buy tyres online and I put my car reg in they always come up with r15 but since I have bought mine it had r16 so he selected r16.
He found that the rear was perfect (although unadjustable).
When this pic came up:
the bottom left was out by a lot, and the bottom right was within normal range. The correct figure was 0.07 and he adjusted both to meet that figure (although the front left wheel had to be adjusted over and over cos it seemed like it was reverting every time he removed the spanner.
One of the other top left images (sorry, i forgot which) was to the extreme of the normal, green range, and he said it didn't need adjusting.
Now, when I took it back to the road it was better but after a bump, it does still steer ever so slightly to the left when I remove my hands from the steering wheel.
I went back and he got a mechanic to look at any other issues who said it seemed fine and the tracking was out (he did drive and replicate the fault).
The original guy is going to look at it again but I wanted to know what you guys think the issue is because I think the images will come back ok.
I've read this thread: http://www.almeraownersclub.com/thr...ot-caused-by-incorrect-wheel-alignment.47195/
And will ask him about the following:
the wheel alignment's wrong
the tyres are pulling it left
the lhf negative camber is not enough
the lhf castor angle is less than the rhs
tyre pressures
suspension snap
brakes/wheel bearings grabbing
front cv's on there way out
The tyres are brand new (steering issues happened after hitting a pothole at 40 before my new tryes were put in) and when I slow down to a stop I usually hear a regular sound as if there is a bulge on the tyre catching on to something everytime it goes round.
Sorry I've written so much, I just wanted to give as much info as possible in order to give a clear picture.
THANK YOU!
He found that the rear was perfect (although unadjustable).
When this pic came up:
the bottom left was out by a lot, and the bottom right was within normal range. The correct figure was 0.07 and he adjusted both to meet that figure (although the front left wheel had to be adjusted over and over cos it seemed like it was reverting every time he removed the spanner.
One of the other top left images (sorry, i forgot which) was to the extreme of the normal, green range, and he said it didn't need adjusting.
Now, when I took it back to the road it was better but after a bump, it does still steer ever so slightly to the left when I remove my hands from the steering wheel.
I went back and he got a mechanic to look at any other issues who said it seemed fine and the tracking was out (he did drive and replicate the fault).
The original guy is going to look at it again but I wanted to know what you guys think the issue is because I think the images will come back ok.
I've read this thread: http://www.almeraownersclub.com/thr...ot-caused-by-incorrect-wheel-alignment.47195/
And will ask him about the following:
the wheel alignment's wrong
the tyres are pulling it left
the lhf negative camber is not enough
the lhf castor angle is less than the rhs
tyre pressures
suspension snap
brakes/wheel bearings grabbing
front cv's on there way out
The tyres are brand new (steering issues happened after hitting a pothole at 40 before my new tryes were put in) and when I slow down to a stop I usually hear a regular sound as if there is a bulge on the tyre catching on to something everytime it goes round.
Sorry I've written so much, I just wanted to give as much info as possible in order to give a clear picture.
THANK YOU!