i ride with a couple 200+ pound friends both on passenger side and it still goes left it has never pulled or drifted to the right. i have to apply constant pressure to the wheel to hold strait. is that pull or drift?

 

I just got an alignment covered under my warranty. Doesnt pull left anymore. At least for now.

 

ok mine was aligned before but the problem still came back. I am wondering if it has nothing to do with the alignment at all but the power steering. If anyone gets a chance jack the front of the car up and turn it on, see if the steering wheel slowly wanders to the left. If it doesn't maybe try "tweaking" the wheel back and forth to see if it wanders without driver input. If it doesn't well then its not the power steering...I was having a chat with the service manager while getting my oil changed and asked him if he could find and TSB's on a pulling issue, he couldn't. He was fairly new to mitsubishi and he tried his best to find alignment specs for the car but nothing yet. I will try and get the specs if I can at a later date, but if anyone else can get the specs from mitsu on our alignment, that would be awesome.

 

Here's an update . Today i went and got winter tires and rims . Now the car goes dead straigth , no more coasting to the left . Since only the GTS as the pulling to the left problem , im thinking that the problem are the GTS wheels . I looked inside one of my GTS wheels and it had an incradible 12 weigths glued inside to balance the wheel .

 

the only reason it has all those weights is because of the weight of the tpms in there. and i have aftermarket wheels and mine still does it just as much if not more. maybe it has something to do with the size of them but either way it shouldn't be pullling at all, its a friggen new car.

 

mine pulls to te right but w/e i just deal with it. mines ES by the way with RRM springs and 18# wheels.

 

I have a GTS w/ CVT. Only a couple hundred miles on it. 90% of the time it pulls left, although I have also had it pull right occasionally (crappy Pittsburgh roads?). I need to call the dealer soon. It pulls left during all speeds, even when creeping up to a stop sign. I have to keep constant pressure on the wheel to hold it straight. If I let go, the wheel and car both turn left.

 

I gave that a try...steering wheel & front wheels stay straight.

 

mine pulls to the left too
and its an ES by the way
~jimmy

 

i thought pulling to the left was a front wheel drive side effect

 

No. FWD can be aligned to drive straight just like any other car.

The 2008 Lancers have a problem. But we don't have a solid answer on what the problem IS...

 

Here is an interesting issue. I bought my car first week out off the boat...my car never and I mean never pulled to the left...I have about 6900 miles on it. 2 months ago an old lady t-boned me smack dead on my driver side front wheel. They had to replace all the suspension and rim etc and I just got it back. Also while in the shop they did a 4 wheel alignment to it. Once I got it back it pulls to the left like no ones business and I fight the wheel to hold it in the lane...the body shop is taking it back to try again.

 

man this thread is still going on, 2 of the local guys old me about it as well.

if Mitsu puts it on there and sees the variation but says its within spec, which is what i was told by the tech when i asked on behalf of my two friends.

You could just over compensate to the right if you guys are that bothered by it.

Also anyone think it could be some kinda areodynamic drag at high speeds? or does your car pull at slow speeds.

 

It pulls at slow speeds, too. Some kind of control arm defect in the GTS's sport suspension maybe.

 

I brought mine in to the dealership to see way the car is pulling left, and the guy said many 08 lancer owners are bringing in their cars with the same issue. He said he could do an alignment but instead of pulling on the city streets it will pull on highways, and vice versa This is supposidly how the cars were made and there is no known solutions yet