I am encountering some handling issues and trying to figure out if its normal? Its a 2002 Sub Forester S, has abt 27M miles - running Geolanders - they appear to have worn fairly evenly. (I bought the car at about 22M miles). I had an alignment done last month and alignment was indeed out some(mainly toed out too much). After that, it seemed to handle fine - we had some winter storms couple of weeks ago and I swapped out the wheels/tired for some Kuhmo izens mounted on wheels (from tirerack) and it handled fine with those. But now since I have put the Geolanders back on its back to handling squirrely. The car will track straight on the highway for the most part but encountering any unevenness in the road (patches, ruts worn form studded tires etc) seems to want to pull the steering off to one side or the other. I have a suspicion that its toed out again too much - but maybe I am just being too sensitive, and this is normal? Can the process of swapping tires/wheels can throw alignment out?
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20 years ago