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From: billr@tektronix.UUCP (Bill Randle)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Tire rotation cured pull! Why?
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 01:38:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 15 01:38:27 1983
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I had the exact same thing happen to me.  What happens (according
to my alignment man) is that the steel belts inside the tires
can slip (shift) over time causeing the tire to be slightly out
of true, which causes it to pull to one side.  In my case, I
switched the front tires L <-> R (against the "normal" reccomen-
dations of tire people) and presto! the car drove straight.

He said that this was not uncommon at all and that the only tires
he had seen that tended not to do it were Michelins.  So, when
I needed new tires I bought Michelins and haven't had any problems
in 50K miles or so.

	-Bill Randle
	tektronix!billr