I have just had some new rear tyres fitted and now the weirdest thing happens - when accelerating, the car pulls slightly right.... when off the accelerator, it pulls to the left.

I'm sure it wasnt like it before and it definitely has nothing to do with the brakes (just had new rear pads and disks too). Anyone had this? Could it be something to do with the passive rear wheel steer? Ive checked the pressures and they're ok too (it was a proper motorsport place that did the work - not monkeys) .

puzzled.

Any help would be appreciated

Steve

 

...and you're sure its got nothing to do with the circular thing in front of you when you drive?

 

Check the tyre pressures, sounds like the nearside is low

EDIT: jsut re-read you have done that have YOU checked them? (doesn't matter if it is a proper place, they still might not have done it properly! - or the valve may be leaking)

Apart from that, suggest you get geometry checked.

 

Tyre pressures for sure

 

Are you sure that the tyres have been put on the correct way round? i.e they may have direction treads and one might be the wrong way round?

 

I am convinced it it pressures from reading the description.

I doubt a 'proper motorsport place - not monkeys' would put directional tyres on the wrong way round, would they?

 

I had this. 2 new rears in Jan and the car felt completely undrivable. It oversteered like shit and worried me a few times when it twitched about at high speed.

Pressures and tyres were fine. In the end I took it on a long journey and the next day the problem had gone.

For some reason, the car being in the air in the tyre place must have somehow unsettled it.

A long journey or some doughnuts will probably bed it back in .

 

Could it be a problem with the LSD?

 

The first impression is obviously tyre pressures bu these seem fine.

Silly thought if you had a brake binding slightly heating the wheel up on one side only - would this be enough to raise the psi by 1 or 2? That's enough on this car to make it pull.

If everything else seems fine, definately get the geo checked.

 

no unless you're spinning the wheels or really accellarating hard?

this is on flat (ish) roads I take it?