I just got an alignment at the TK my friend manages and they have started using a new print out which includes something called "Steer Ahead" (which was off by a decent amount) . I looked on my old printouts and didn't see it. Does anyone know what this is?

I was in a rush so I didnt have a chance to check out the printout until I was home, so I couldn't ask anyone.

 

can you scan and post this print please ?

 

Steer ahead? Hmm... it wasn't on my moms alignment print out from TK last month.

 

I got a couple of the older sheets if those are needed for comparison purposes.

 

Mine aren't even the same kind of printouts. Guess this store swapped to a new alignment computer.

 

i get the same printouts as well...did u go to a tk performance?

 

Nope, just the regular one. My friend use to be at TK performance but got transfered.

 

the way i see it, i'd say it's some sort of a compilation of every data to show how the front of the car will react. (at the rear specs at the same place, there's thrust angle, showing how the rear will react on the road)

you had a parallelism making your car pull to the left, you had both cambers going towards the left, adding to the pull effect, but you also had a little caster difference that tends to make the car pull to the right, reducing by little the left pull effect : making the total pull 0.11 to the left.

 

sounds like that is plausable. I might be going back on sunday, so I will see if that is the correct answer.

 

From what I remember the mechanic said it had something to with how level the streering wheel is when your driving straight on a flat road.