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Old 04-12-2008 | 06:08 AM
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I recently had my pickup in for regular maintenance at Wally World and I had the tires rotated and balanced, as well as my oil changed and fluids checked. Before I even had this work done my truck had been slightly pulling to the right at speeds above 40mph. After getting the tires rotated and balanced the problem was still there so through my powers of deduction I assumed it was probably and alignment issue to blame. I took my truck into goodyear about a week ago and they did an alignment on it. Since then the problem seems only to have gotten worse. The tires seems to have good tread on them still and the pressures never seem out of whack so I am at a loss as to what may be causing this problem. Anyone have any ideas?

Also my MPG have gone to crap. Once I got just a tad over 400 miles out of a tank of gas and now I am very luck to get 300 out of an entire tank!
 
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Old 04-12-2008 | 07:44 AM
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Hey Shibby, Rotate the tires side to side.....like L/F to R/F....R/f to L/F....same with rear... side to side.
If your pull goes away or even pulls to the left...then its the tires. It's called a "radial" pull.
Hope this helps figure it out.
 
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Old 04-12-2008 | 07:51 AM
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Thanks I'll give that a try.
 



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