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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: front wheel drive steering
Message-ID: <806@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 12:06:42 EST
Article-I.D.: cylixd.806
Posted: Fri Feb 21 12:06:42 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 08:27:06 EST
Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
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Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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In article <1127@ihlpa.UUCP> ibyf@ihlpa.UUCP (Scott) writes:
>Ok you net.auto fans, here's one for you.  I have only driven two
>front wheel drive cars,but noticed in both of them that they tend to
>drift to the right side of the road....

My new Toyota Tercel does it, and I just had my Behemoth Electra
aligned, and it does the same. I had always attributed it to the fact
that highways are made to slant slightly away from the middle line
so that water won't collect; thus, if I am driving on the right side,
my car will lean to the right. I tested this theory on a 4-lane by
driving in the left lane and letting go of the steering wheel
(carefully, of course!); sure enough, there is much less tendency to
pull to the right. On the far left, there is actually a tendency to
pull to the left.


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