Hey guys, after having new wheels/tires mounted on the car, I now experience a more pronounced vibration in the steering wheel and the car drifts to the right. The car did this BEFORE these wheels/tires, but not as bad. I went back to the place that did the work, I had them rotate the tires on the right size, and it still does it. They say the alignment is fine. They also say that the wheels are balanced fine. What leads me to believe they don't know what they are doing is that he keeps trying to push that it's torque steer lol, even though it happens on deceleration also. Ruling out a bad tire or bad wheel, what other possibilities could it be? I talked to my local mitsu dealer (while also checking out the evo x lol) and he said he'd be glad to take a look at it, but he'd rather not charge me to fix what the tire place should for free.

To my knowledge, the car has never been in an accident, the carfax came up clean - I am the second owner. I will be raising the front suspension a tad bit so I can get the camber set better so the tire sits more vertical, instead of on an angle when my friend gets back into town.

This problem is pissing me of! Please help!

 

Bump?

 

I have had the same problem (albeit without the vibration) after installing some Neovas. The tire guy says its "radial pull" i.e. one tire is creating more friction/drag than the others somehow, and that is what is causing the right veer.

Bump for ideas?

 

Exactly, that's what the tire shop guy said also. But even after they "rotated the tires around" on the right side, it still does the same.

 

are your new tires and wheels wider than the ones befor if so more rubber on the road you will fell the road imperfections more and the tire will want to turn to the way the road is curver cuz most roads are not flat so ur car will pull to the way the road goes but thats imo and i bet if u drove on the left side of the road your car would pull to the left i would assume cuz it happens to me like that

 

Yes, they are now a 9 inch wide tire. But the thing is, it just doesn't happen on one road, it happens everywhere. I was on the highway 2 nights ago and if I let go of the wheel a little, around 70mph, I would be in the right lane within 5 seconds. This is a pretty good pull I'm talking about.

 

maby that highway isent very level haha jk

 

I would suggest not letting go of the wheel for 5 seconds on the freeway

 

I don't, but I did this test to see how bad the pull was. I didn't even totally let go of the wheel.

 

I was just messing with you. I'm slapping on 18's by 8.5 within the next few weeks. I'll report in if I'm getting the same problem. I'm guessing that you just aren't used to the larger mass as said a few posts up.

EDIT: I see that you also have coilovers. They're pretty sensitive to all of the imperfections in the road to begin with. Now with the addition on wider wheels, the car is going to want to drift around a bit.

 

5 seconds is a really long time for a car to take to pull to the side... that's more like lightly drifting. My friend's TSX's alignment is all messed up and it pulls to the right the instant you let go of the wheel... If I let my hands off for 5 seconds, even the Porsche on a perfectly smooth road will pull one direction or the other.

I'm guess your alignment is SLIGHTLY off, or your pressures are SLIGHTLY off... So the tire shop says its fine because they're lazy.

 

I know there would be a different feel to ride on a wider wheel, but this is something totally different.

 

All I can tell you is to take it to another shop and have them look at the alignment

 

Radial drag is a B****, did the shop mount and balance your tires or did they come already mounted? Did they road match them? What kind of machine? Are the weights on securely? These are all things that will cause problems with the drift.... Plus your in FL and so am I and all the roads are totally ****ed so it may just be more pronounced since you went wider.

 

The shop did mount the tires onto the wheels, then put them on the car. I don't know anything else. This was the Tires Plus shop on 441 and southern.