New tires & rims pull to the right

JM · 2007-12-02T21:13:47+00:00

I just put winter tires and steel rims on my 2001 Accord coupe. I've noticed the car seems to want to pull to the right now, and didn't before. The tires were on a different car last winter, is it possible the camber/toe was different enough on the old car that it's causing this one to track to the right? If that's the case, it should eventually even out as the tires wear to match this car's setup, right?

Dec 02, 2007 23 Replies

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Matt Ion 18 years ago

I didn't realize there could be varying degrees of "directionality"... is it possible to be "only a little bit directional"? Is that like being "slightly pregnant"?

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Jim Yanik 18 years ago

Matt Ion wrote in news:CKJ5j.1733$iU.702@pd7urf2no:

by that I mean the degree of slant of the grooving.If you examine the ES100 tread,the "directional" grooves wrap much more around the tire in the plane of the tire,a "deeper Vee". your tire is much more "cross tread" than a typical directional tread tire. Thus you get more tire noise on dry pavement.

I doubt you'd see much difference if your tire was mounted the "wrong way".

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Matt Ion 18 years ago

I'm looking at assorted different pictures of various directional tires. Few of their tread patterns are as "exaggerated" as those on the ES100s.

Fact is, the manufacturer considers the design "directional" and the tires are accordingly marked with directional arrows. Thus they ARE, in fact, directional tires, whether or not Jim Yanik considers them to be so.

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John Horner 18 years ago

Maybe the shop used poor lifting practices and bend a suspension arm slightly.

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