idragmazda
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Honda techs adjusted the steering wheel slightly and now it’s slightly off the other way, but the pull is still there. They’re telling me it’s torque steer from the “tune”. I NEVER experienced this with stock wheel and all season tires.I started having this problem on my stock Contis after suffering a blowout of the front right. The factory tires only had about 1K miles on them (and tread was still practically new on the other front tire), so I went ahead and replaced just the one. When I got the car back, I noticed it pulling gently to the right on throttle, and correcting gently to the left off throttle. Swapped right to left and the issue reversed itself. Rotated both sides front to back and now it pulls back to the right again, albeit much much less.
I was initially thinking that the impact from the blowout must have damaged my suspension, but both Honda and I did a visual inspection and everything looks and feels good (the bushings are perfect and the front right wheel won't budge an inch when jacking it up and trying to shake it). I'm starting to think that this car is just insanely sensitive to asymmetric tread wear on tires.
Last thought - I do feel like my steering wheel is still slightly off to the right. I've had two alignments already - is there a separate way to just adjust the steering wheel itself?
I’m going crazy. My personal thought is that it’s a dragging brake caliper on the right side.
I drive the car up to 30 then put it in neutral and it starts drifting right
Then, while in neutral still, I straighten out the car, let go of wheel, and it starts driving right again —> this is why I don’t think it’s torque steer.
Can you try this and let me know what happens?
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