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Not always, just sometimes, sometimes when the car is cold, sometimes when its hot. I never happens more than once with in ten minutes. It will pull the car to the right, so I will counter steer to the left, then after I stop it is back to normal. I would like to know what this could be, and if it is excessively dangerous, cause chance are its not going to get fixed till I can find some money.
[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: PewterBird ]</p>
Hmmmm, could be a tire with less air pressure, or less tread on one side, but it tends to pull all the time when it's like that. Might be a caliper or brake hose too. Seems to me that one side of your brakes are grabbing tighter than the other. Anybody have any other info that could help here?
I agree. Tire pressure/condition. Right caliper grabbing stronger. Possibly caused by a slightly burned left rotor(preventing the left pads from holding tight). Could possibly have to do with suspension geometry(possibly, but it would have a problem more often). Does it only happen when you have a heavier set person as a passenger? That would cause a problem. Possibly a weight transfer to the front right only when braking(worn strut). If it doesn't pull too much I wouldn't worry too much about it. Have you tried seeing if it drifts when driving in a straight line? If not, find a nice straight and flat road and get to about 35MPH and let go of the steering wheel. If it doesn't drift to the right that eliminates the possibility of tire pressure and suspension geometry. Let us know when you get it figured out.
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I have had a similar problem but only at certain intersections. There is one in particular in my town that when coming to a stop it will always pull to the right, I have decided it is just the uneven roadway causing an unnatural weight transfer in the car making one side grab more than others. You might want to look into this.
I should proably also add that my shocks are prettymuch gone on my car and I think that is making the problem seem worse in places as the speed of the weight transfer is increased, making the pulling effect more pronounced.
[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: black98V6 ]</p>
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Some roads get grooves in them. You usually can't see these grooves as they aren't very deep at all, but on rainy days, you'll be able to notice them better. You can see two grooves about two feet wide, depressions made from all the traffic. The best place to see this is the interstate. black98V6, that might be the problem with that one intersection.
I did the straight line test, on a flat road. I went about 35 and let go of the wheel. It kept going straight, with just a tiny shift to the right. I heard that most modern cars have the steering adjusted a little to the right so if the driver falls asleep he doesn't go into oncomming traffic. In anycase it seemed pretty true to straight. I checked the tire pressure and it was about 33 in both front tires, and 35 in back. I don't see any uneven tire wear.
One more peice of info I forgot to add to the last post:
While going like 10 - 0 mph, if I lightly brake, My car will rock to a stop. It kinda feels like the pads are making more contact on one side of the rotor than the other. I can not tell what wheel it is coming from though. I bet I have a warped rotor.
Well, I guess I am saving up for a brake job. What do you guys recomend if I buy new rotors and pads. If its too expecive I can get my rotors reground for free, because my old high school autoshop teacher will use my car as an example for his class. And I was thinking of upgrading to steel braded lines. But considering my money situation, and the time factor, and the fact it is raining all this week, it is probably not going get done for like a month. I keep ya all posted, when I find out what the problem is.
[ February 12, 2003: Message edited by: PewterBird ]</p>
I had a bad problem of the wheels steering all over the place while going straight on a bumpy road. After buying adjustable tie rod ends from RKSport and installing and getting a speed shop that could handle bump steer (very hard to find in Oregon) it handles like a dream. This is usually only a problem if your car is lowered, but mine was pretty bad straight from the factory. Just do a search on bump steer to learn more about it.
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it probley or hopefuly is groves in the road mine does the same thing on heavly traficed inter sections but you may want to get your brakes checked to be sure
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Whenever you get a pull to one side you should investigate it thoroughly... could be all sorts of things, I had it on my firebird and it was in and out of monro several times... first time they replaced a leaky gasket in the differential... still pulled, so the remanned the calipers... still pulled... they finally found a kink in the brake line, it would make braking slow on the one side, then it would lock up on that side... so it was pulling to both sides... got so bad once I had to stop because of smoke billowing out of the wheel wells. They replaced the line for free and told me the other one was going to need replacing soon ($60) Well I had them do the front springs and they busted the line off that needed replacing, so I got that one free too.
Definitely find the problem it will save you trouble down the road.
BTW thanks for the bump steer tid-bid... I get it bad, just figured it was the super wide tires, but I'll have to investigate that.
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Haven’t done anything on the Camaro, but put LEDs on my truck headlights . And my oil pressure sensor went out on the truck so going to fix that this...
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