Alignment issue - dealer is blaming it on the tires
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Alignment issue - dealer is blaming it on the tires
2006 Dakota
Awd
Trx4
20,000 miles
Bfg all terrain tires
When I bought the vehicle, before I signed the documents. I told dealer that the vehicle is pulling to the right, and he said he would fix it.
After 2 weeks, and being in the shop a couple times, it's still pulling to the right. Dealer says the alignment is right on. They have rotated the tires every possible direction and said it's fixed after the last rotation. It's not fixed and now it's worse. I will be in the fast lane of the highway, and within 200 meters it will pull over to the slow lane, 3 lanes away
They are saying the tires are wide, and knobby cause it to pull. Bull****
Ideas? Do I tell them to change the tires then? As they said they would fix it for me originally.
Are these tires known to pull?
Awd
Trx4
20,000 miles
Bfg all terrain tires
When I bought the vehicle, before I signed the documents. I told dealer that the vehicle is pulling to the right, and he said he would fix it.
After 2 weeks, and being in the shop a couple times, it's still pulling to the right. Dealer says the alignment is right on. They have rotated the tires every possible direction and said it's fixed after the last rotation. It's not fixed and now it's worse. I will be in the fast lane of the highway, and within 200 meters it will pull over to the slow lane, 3 lanes away
They are saying the tires are wide, and knobby cause it to pull. Bull****
Ideas? Do I tell them to change the tires then? As they said they would fix it for me originally.
Are these tires known to pull?
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well, AWD and wide tires will pull a little to the right, but not that bad.
If its a warranty thing, then yes. have them change the tires. If they will let you, keep them. then after the new tires dont fix the issue, you can put the BFG's back on. After they take care of the real issue.
If its a warranty thing, then yes. have them change the tires. If they will let you, keep them. then after the new tires dont fix the issue, you can put the BFG's back on. After they take care of the real issue.
I have the BF AT on my truck and it also pulls to the right and my trucks alignment is dead nuts on. When I have some suspension work done in the next couple of months I will have then tip the alignment slightly to the left to see if it helps.
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I had this same problem with my stock Goodyear Wranglers, however rotating them fixed the problem until I had to rotate them again and that bad tire was put in the wrong spot again, then it was dead right whenever I let go of the wheel. When I bought my Hankook Dynapro's I had my alignment done and the mechanic told me that it did sound like a bad tire. Maybe you have more than one bad tire and that's why rotating them made it worse? I will say since I put on the Hankooks my truck drives perfectly straight, but I haven't had to rotate them yet.
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Seems odd. You had the entire front end checked out? A shop can always add half a degree of negative camber on both sides in the front, in order to keep the truck straight and true with the all terrains, but who wants to do that if they don't have too...
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More like... right lane you pull to the right, left lane you pull right and over the center of the road and into the right lane, middle lane you pull to the right.
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Hey y'all,
I'll call BS on the dealership's reasoning. If you're rolling in the frast lane (crowned left) and you end up in the slow lane (crowned right) you've got an issue. Although I call BS on the dealership resoning, it may actually be the wheels. A tire or tires with a slipped belt or messed up rim/rims can cause this.
I actually isolated an identical issue on my '07 4x4 (running the 265/60/R18 tires) to the rubber. The Wrangler SR-A's slipped a belt after 19500 miles.
If you swap the front tires yourself what happens?
I'll call BS on the dealership's reasoning. If you're rolling in the frast lane (crowned left) and you end up in the slow lane (crowned right) you've got an issue. Although I call BS on the dealership resoning, it may actually be the wheels. A tire or tires with a slipped belt or messed up rim/rims can cause this.
I actually isolated an identical issue on my '07 4x4 (running the 265/60/R18 tires) to the rubber. The Wrangler SR-A's slipped a belt after 19500 miles.
If you swap the front tires yourself what happens?
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Hey y'all,
I'll call BS on the dealership's reasoning. If you're rolling in the frast lane (crowned left) and you end up in the slow lane (crowned right) you've got an issue. Although I call BS on the dealership resoning, it may actually be the wheels. A tire or tires with a slipped belt or messed up rim/rims can cause this.
I actually isolated an identical issue on my '07 4x4 (running the 265/60/R18 tires) to the rubber. The Wrangler SR-A's slipped a belt after 19500 miles.
If you swap the front tires yourself what happens?
I'll call BS on the dealership's reasoning. If you're rolling in the frast lane (crowned left) and you end up in the slow lane (crowned right) you've got an issue. Although I call BS on the dealership resoning, it may actually be the wheels. A tire or tires with a slipped belt or messed up rim/rims can cause this.
I actually isolated an identical issue on my '07 4x4 (running the 265/60/R18 tires) to the rubber. The Wrangler SR-A's slipped a belt after 19500 miles.
If you swap the front tires yourself what happens?
It cant be the tires then if it doesn't change with rotation. I have run into this issue with tires before and upon a cross rotation the pull went to the opposite side.