After installing MR struts into my GSR... and getting an alignment with the following settings

-1.5 Camber Front & Back
3mm Toe in rear
0mm Toe Front.

The car pulls to the left a bit...

now to kinda fix the problem i called the guy who did the alignment (addison Wheel Alignment) says he has the settings dead on... and that my directional A046's are the root of the pull.

anyhow for a temp fix i overinflated the left tire (pull side) to 37 PSi and changed the right side to 33.5 Psi..

after a test drive this seems to have leveled out the car on the road...

what do you guys think... is this really a tire issue or this guy is giving me horse dodo.

Also is possible that i installed the front struts backwards.... there were no markings on the front Bilstein's to indicate front and back..

 

If your alignment had been off before your install and new align, then you probably were wearing the tires unevenly. so when you are now properly aligned it could pull. It happened to me when i had my sti.

 

all IL guys here.. but yea i doubt that the struts are in backwards there probably would of been fitment issues.

 

Rotate your tires front to back and see if it still pulls. It could very well be a radial tire pull. Did you get a print out of the alignment?

 

To check if it is a tire then adjust your tire pressures to be the same and swap the tires. Normally if the tires are non directional then you just swap them from left to the right and see if the car pulls the other way but in our case the tires are directional so just try rotating them and see if the pull goes awey. Now make sure it is not the road or the steering wheel being off centered. The car can also pull if the camber is the same in the front. By you sitting in it the suspension moves and making the left camber go more positive and the left camber go more negative and that could also make a pull. You dont want the from camber to be the same on the street. I am also going to tell you that at that setting your front tires will wear on the inside and dont try to tell other wise. I do alignment for living. Your caster settings could also make the car pull but thats another story.

Good Luck

 

aren't MR struts inverted on the front?

 

Please explain because I will challenge your "so called" alignment expertise. Let me guess you work at a Firestone? Do you align a lot of Taurus, Cobalt's and Malibu's for a living? Negative 1.5 camber up front with zero toe wil not wear the insides. What's your recommendation 0 or -.5? The evo front the factory can go as far as -2 up front and be within factory specs. I ran two different set of advans, one set got ate up because toe was was off from the factory. The other set was on a properly aligned car with zero toe all around and -2 camber up front and -1 out back. My tires wore great and they lasted a little lonnger than Advans should.

As far as answering the OP's question. Try swapping the tires front to back to see if that helps. You alignment looks fine but i would personally do zero toe out back if it's a 100% street car. If you track it then your setup is fine. Alittle more camber up front can't hurt but you'll be fine either way.

 

I actually put on my original Set of Advans with my BBS wheels... Same pull on the left.

Again i can correct this by over inflating the left tire by 3 psi.

I guess ill be going in for another alignment.

 

Get your money back and go elsewhere.

 

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