My car has been continuing to pull to the left for some weeks since the Dealer checked/corrected the alignment. It has been back three times and they have confirmed each time that the alignment is correct, but the car was still pulling to the left slightly (exactly as if the tracking is out).

Having been requested by the dealer, I today went direct to the tyre shop they use for this to show them the problem. They agreed the car was pulling, but again found the alignment correct by LR standards. So they moved the alignment slightly outside the LR specs to counter what they consider to be a problem caused by road camber.

Now this hasn't solved it 100%, so I intend to go back and further query this with the dealer, but before I do I would like to understand if it is an acceptible practice to have a car's alignment slightly outside of the Land Rover Factory specs, particularly when it is believed it is the camber of the roads causing the movement to the left??

TIA

2R

There are folks out there with more knowledge about it than me, but I'd say that if you have to set your alignment outside the factory spec to cater for an inherent problem, then all you're doing is putting a sticking plaster on it. You're not getting to the root of the problem and resolving that, albeit that you're trying

I'd say that if you deliberately run your car out of alignment for long, your tyres will start to wear unevenly which can then provide a host of other knock-on symptoms.

 

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i would have thought LR parameters are there for a reason, not to be adjusted by the tyre guys to correct things

Possible pulling could be caused by binding bearings/brakes or a difference in load in the car such as fat driver and all the luggage at one side, but with Air suspension that shouldn't effect it, unless the cars wasn't levelling out

How did you solve this issue?
I may be paranoic but I feel to be getting the same issue even after a dozen allignements by LR and non LR tire shops.

Welll its not fixed yet.

They found last week that the steering wheel they replaced was one notch out, so this was contributing to the car not going in a straight line! They haven't done the realignment yet as they are replacing the steering rack on Wednesday in an attempt to fix a rattle/reverboration that has been going on since Feb.

So if all goes well I'll have a car back on Wed that no linger rattles and drives in a straight line!

2nd Rower wrote:

Welll its not fixed yet.

So if all goes well I'll have a car back on Wed that no linger rattles and drives in a straight line!

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2nd Rower wrote:

Welll its not fixed yet.

They found last week that the steering wheel they replaced was one notch out, so this was contributing to the car not going in a straight line! They haven't done the realignment yet as they are replacing the steering rack on Wednesday in an attempt to fix a rattle/reverboration that has been going on since Feb.

So if all goes well I'll have a car back on Wed that no linger rattles and drives in a straight line!

Why do you need a car driving in a straight line, i don't know




Please let me know if you got the problem solved...

2nd Rower wrote:

Welll its not fixed yet.

They found last week that the steering wheel they replaced was one notch out, so this was contributing to the car not going in a straight line!

When I hold the steering wheel so that it is straight, then the car 'pulls' to the side!!!

2nd Rower wrote:

When I hold the steering wheel so that it is straight, then the car 'pulls' to the side!!!

You mean when you let go of the steering wheel on a flat road the car steers straight BUT the steering wheel is not in the straight ahead position by a small margin. If your dealer trys to rectify this by moving the steering wheel on its splines (which is not the correct solution) then the steering sensor will be out of position and will probably give and error signal and require attention. Your dealer should be putting the car back on the alignment machine and adjusting both tie rods to get the steering wheel in the correct postion and which he should have done in the first place.  Gone - 2008 TDV8, Stornoway Grey, ebony, zabrano trim, TV, Tasmods, mudflaps.

No I mean when I let go of the steering wheel with the steering wheel true and straight and the car pulls to the left! This on roads of no real camber, where the car previoulsy (i.e several maonths ago) had no issues and didn't pull to the side!

I even demonstrated this the the wheel alignment place the dealer use by taking them ou myself!

Ok. The first thing to do is to find a straight, quiet and flat country road. Drive down the left hand side of the road and see if it pulls towards the kerb, which presumably it will. Preferably retrace your 'steps' before driving down the right hand side of the same stretch of road (so you are on the wrong side of the road this time) and obviously when nothing is coming in the opposite direction. If the car now pulls to the right then the chances are there is nothing wrong and it is the slight camber that causes the problem. If it pulls to the left, or even drives straight, then the alignment is wrong. Gone - 2008 TDV8, Stornoway Grey, ebony, zabrano trim, TV, Tasmods, mudflaps.

I can prove rrsjo's words. My car also seemes to be pulling constantly to the left. As it was really driving me mad I was testing it quite extensively the orther day and can conclude it is clearly due to camber. Mainly since on some roads it also pulls to the right and on some (not many here around Grantham) it even goes straight

Driving a LHD Model in Europe I also experience that the car is pulling away from the center of the road, in this case pulling to the right. I am fairly sure that this is due to the camber of the road.