I recently put on an A-Spec suspension, 18" Sparkle Silver A-Spec Rims, and Continental DW 245 tires on them. I had this problem with the car with it slightly steering to the left, at the time of purchase I had 101K miles, right now I have 106K. I noticed its been getting worse and when I brake, I have to physically make an effort to keep it from going to the right. I recently got my wheels balanced and mounted and also did an alignment and was told I had no issues. What could be the problem? I'm going to look at replacing my brake pads with A-Spec pads soon and hopefully I can take a look in that area to see if I missed something

 

The car drifts to the left while driving, but pulls right when braking?
Drifting left, alignment, tires, suspension damage, pulling right when braking, I'd say the left isn't functioning properly.
The DW also has to be mounted in a certain position on the wheel, is this correct?
It's a start.

 

I screwed this up. I meant to say it steers to the right slightly at 101K, now its doing it more after I've done everything up until this point. And I wasn't aware that the DW needed to be mounted a certain way. I took it to a reputable Import shop and would assume they know to do this

 

DW's are inside/outside tires (I don't know the proper term). A slight right pull is normal. But I'm not sure what could cause the issue if it has gotten worse besides alignment...Did they give you an alignment spec sheet by any chance?

 

Yes I did get one of those sheets. Ill post it in a second

 

https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=...G37v_DWTJg0aGo

It rains a lot here in WA.......

 

Contrary to one of the above posts, a slight pull is not to be considered normal.
Difficult to read the numbers, but I would say the pull is from the difference in camber in the front suspension as it looks like the left camber is just about double the right. Also, in a perfect alignment, the toe would want to be set the same for each side, but it looks like the rear toe is .06 and .03 so don't know how they can get total toe as .01, looks like .09 to me. The camber readings aren't out vehicle specs, just a difference in side to side and as there is no camber adjustment, so be it, unless you want to invest in aftermarket kits so the camber can be adjusted.

 

Asymmetric?

 

I was reading about radial pull, but in my opinion, the pull is significant just for tires. The guy did recommend a camber hit, but didn't explain why, and i just wanted to go. I was up for about 34 hours when I got this done and just wanted to sleep. Maybe I should just take it back and ask him what the deal is.

 

Doubt a radial pull, but it would certainly be easy to identify as if you switch tires from side to side it should pull in the other direction. At least with a camber kit the adjustments can be made to have the camber equal on each side, front and rear, but they will also need to keep the toe the same for each side. Once again the spec used front camber -1.0/0.0 rear -1.5/-0.5, toe front -0.15/0.15, rear 0.00/0.30, all in degrees.
Hope you get some sleep.

 

Thanks for the info! I'll pull it in hopefully tomorrow and get definite answers.