I have an issue where my car CONSTANTLY pulls to the left. I've had the car aligned, the tires are always inflated to specs, and I'm pretty sure its not a faulty tire. Any other suggestions as to what could be wrong? I'd rather get some opinions here before spending a ton of money at the dealership just for them to research for a week and find nothing and charge me an arm and a leg. I appreciate the help!

 

Why are you sure it's NOT a faulty tire? Have you eliminated radial pull? Swap the front tires across and see if the pull changes. If it doesn't swap them back and swap the rear tires, test again. That's the sure way to eliminate radial pull as a possibility.

 

Pull is usually caused by the camber settings. Since camber is not adjustable on TSX, your alignment was probably for naught, unless the problem is tires as suggested.

Camber specification is 0degs +/- 45 secs. A pull to left suggests RF wheel camber is too negative w/ less negative right or LF is + w/ lower or negative RF. It sounds confusing but think of wheel tilted top outwards is + and top inwards is negative and consider how this tilt would affect pull.

Camber can be w/i spec and cause pull. A good camber setting has RF slightly more negative than LF, for instance RF at -15 secs and LF at 0. This 1/4 degree cross camber is usually applied to cars to compensate for road crown (road higher in middle that edge for drainage).

good luck

 

If he had the car aligned at the dealership, they should have a printout with the full measurements on the wheels, plus the factory limits listed too.

 

OP, I have the EXACT same problem. I've been dealing with this for the last year or so (check out my old thread). Since then, I have been contacted by another member of the same problem. My car has brand new tires a year ago when this happened and my car is also 100% stock. I have lifetime alignment at firestone and the tech said I needed adjustable ball joints up front and camber kit in the rear. I decided to look into more into it recently and scheduled another appointment at firestone this saturday.

 

Not sure if this is a common problem, but I had my front brakes fixed recently and was told that my driverside endlink was snapped in half. I'm guessing this would be the endlink on the swaybar? My car has pulled to the left slightly ever since I had it and I always thought it was a tire problem or out of alignment.

 

bad tie rods, tight brake caliper, rubbing rotors, could be a number of things...

 

I just got my alignment done and they suggested the following:

Stat: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53675467/Ali...nt%20Stats.pdf

Firestone told me get an adjustable rear camber:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53675467/Ali...Suggestion.pdf

Pretty expensive to me. Do you have any suggestion on what i should get?

 

oh firestone! I have had good luck with the "mid-grade tuner shops" the guys usually have good quality machines and usually service modded cars. It's so much easier to talk to them!

 

does the condition change at all depending on the VSA being engaged or not?