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So rotated my tyres the other day thanks to my hoist at work (suckers!) and one in the front had a buckle in the wheel so I moved it to the back (no biggie was rotating anyway to get SP Sports on front)

Now my steering wheel isn't straight? About 5 degrees to the right and the car is straight... I dont think it was doing this before I rotated them but I could be wrong and was just used to it.. I just figured my alignment was out.

Anyway, I ran it over the Safe-T-Stop this arvo and my alignment is spot on?

Dafuq?

so take the steering wheel off and straighten it lol
someone must have put the steering wheel on when the alignment was out

Just weird that it wasnt happening before I rotated the tyres.. I'm pretty sure it was straight before...

I'll rotate them back on Saturday and see. If not yeah I suppose its problem with steering wheel not being lined up properly.

Happened on my old civic lol
got a wheel alignment and then the steering wheel was almost sideways

I didnt do an alignment I just rotated and balanced my tyres haha. Its pretty fucked I'm sure I would've noticed it before hahahah

oh wtf lol

Yeah iunno. Safe-T-Stop said alignment was fine this afternoon although its not overly reliable.

f**k it, I'm just moving my wheel

Daniel2019 wrote:.. I'm pretty sure it was straight before...

It wasn't mate

Rotating tyres doesn't bend steering arms or make the whole steering wheel slip on the shaft, Uve just never noticed.


Probs did it when ya buckled the wheel

destinationtoby wrote:

Daniel2019 wrote:.. I'm pretty sure it was straight before...

It wasn't mate

Yeah I dunno. It's pretty rooted surely I woulda noticed it.. I noticed it as soon as I got in it to drive it after rotating.

And the wheel was already buckled

It's ok I have some tyres for my 17s finally so painting them and swapping them and putting them on.

Got Federal 595 SS's

f**k yeah! i'm getting 235/40 rsr's next week

I don't bother with good tyres, they go bald too quick

Hahaha shutup my achillies went bald in 2-3 months

You do realise a rear end that's out of alignment can make your steering off centre while driving?

payaya wrote:You do realise a rear end that's out of alignment can make your steering off centre while driving?

Of course, but I didn't do an alignment. The only thing I did was rotate and move buckled wheel to rear. Surely it would be more fucked with the buckle up front? My steering used to be shuddery.. rotating tyres fixed that (obviously because of buckle)

When you get an alignment done, the aligner dude should clamp your steering wheel straight and then align your wheels.
This will give you a straight alignment and a straight wheel.

I dunno what happened to you bestie, maybe your buckled wheel is also a bent/twisted wheel.
Putting it on the back might be making the rear of your car pull to one side, making you have to correct it by steering off center.

Yeah I'm going to do an alignment at work on Saturday and see how we go. Buckled wheel should be giving me more problems on the front though..

PHIL069 wrote:I dunno what happened to you bestie,

You abandoned him for us, that's what happened

Everyone abandons him...