I was walking up to my car in a parking lot (shortly after I had just washed it) and was looking at the rear tires and noticed something very peculiar. The tire tread had a light coating of dirt/dust that really made the tread pattern stick out. What was interesting, was the dirt/dust pattern made it very clear how the tire was tracking. I stood back and looked at both rears tires and could tell the driver side appeared to be tracking with the wheel (camber?) slightly pitched out. In other words, the dust was slightly more towards the outside of the tire tread. The passenger tire showed the dust perfectly centered on the tread. So I looked at the front and the patterned was reversed - passenger side dust slightly to the inside and the driver side centered. My car slightly pulled to the left when I bought it about 2 months ago (w/27k miles on it) and had terrible torque steer. I put new tires on it (245-40-17 Toyo Proxes) and the torque steer all but went away but the pull to the left actually got worse. Now I had already planned to get a 4 wheel alignment (because of some of the threads I had read) but haven't yet done it. Hopefully this will solve the pulling problem (and the tracking problem?).

 

A 4-wheel alignment should fix both.

 

get it balanced and aligned using the hunter roadforce pro machines.