Car pulls to the right only when accelerating
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Actually it is the norm for every road (even parking lots), because water cannot be allowed to collect and "pool" on the roadway. The road is constructed with a minimum grade here in PA, it is a minimum of 2% grade (2 feet rise over 100 foot length).
This however, is not intended nor is it responsible for pulling a car to the side of the roadway.
The FHWA and the state DOT's set the maximum grade depending on what is being constructed. A freeway will have a larger % grade, because with the faster moving cars, the water must be removed from the surface faster than on a local, township road, where it is not as important to remove the water from the road (which is less costly to construct than a steeper slope).
Bottom line is, the Engineering District of a county has minimums and maximums for these grades. You cannot construct a grade that WOULD cause a car to pull to the side, as what happens with torque steer. It is illegal...
Hope this helps
Last edited by mberndt; 09-22-2006 at 11:13 AM.
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everytime my sister has her tires rotated on her 90 corolla she gets a bad pull. she has owned it 2 yrs in aug. high miles. with 1 rotation the pull was caused by a bad driver's side axle. another time a bad pass. front wheel bearing. so u may want to check out those areas. she just had them rotated thurs and she has another pull. sams did the rotation so they would not know the cause of the pull.
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As I stated before it does pull while coasting and acceleration. Braking is not the problem since it goes whereever the car is going.
Im seriously thinking it is the old wheels
Im seriously thinking it is the old wheels
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I think it is probably your tires also. Sometimes the tire looks ok on the outside, but internally the belts can be damaged. Most of the time it will cause a bad vibration, but who knows maybe it can also cause a pull.
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Which is why I said find someone with good wheels and tires and see if you can try them on your car for a couple miles.
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