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Just had a wheel alignment due to my car pulling to the left. the technician claims it's still pulling to the left after the alignment because of the cheap nankang tyres causing "radial pull", any merit to this?

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Four matching tyres?

yeah, all 4 nankangs

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Swap em around...the 'technician' should have done that to try and fix the problem.

I had this on a 2006 swift I used to own. I had nexen tyres and it did the same. Was so annoying.

Sailor wrote:Swap em around...the 'technician' should have done that to try and fix the problem.

yeah he wouldn't do that because they are directional treads.

i figure he was honest because he decided not to charge me.

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Tyre pressures the same?

I've had "cheap" tyres that follow road irregularities and camber but never just one direction. Change wheels front to back see if any change ? What's tyre wear look like?

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KevGoat wrote: Change wheels front to back see if any change ? What's tyre wear look like?

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The inside of the rears are surprisingly quite worn, I hadn't noticed since I would visually check from the side of the car.

Magpie wrote:Tyre pressures the same?

Yeah, had this issue for a while and I've checked pressures a few times.

If the inside is considerably more worn than the outside, this could point to excessive toe in. Negative camber will wear the inside, but I believe toe in will cause the excessive wear and may be the cause of the "dragging".

I'm no expert, that's just my limited knowledge so anyone with better experience please correct me ...

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If you bought the tyres then go back to the retailer with the complaint. If you did not buy the tyres then go to another wheel aligner for a recheck / confirmation. If its possible to borrow another set of wheels/ tyres then try that.

Ive had tram-lining and the alignment eventually fixed this. But it has to be someone who knows how to align MX5's. I had it aligned by some local Joe & it didn't make any difference.

Its very common for alignment shops to not align the car at all. Most automatic alignment machines can be tricked pretty easily to show a bad before and good after alignment readout, so a lot of places will drive it around the block and if its ok-ish they just wont do anything.

Dann