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How to Diagnose an Alignment Problem

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From Quick Guide: Alignment Basics

Summary: If your car has an alignment problem, the steering will pull from one side to the other. Diagnose alignment problems with the car maintenance tips in this free video on automotive repair from a professional auto mechanic.

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By Dave Erb
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Dave Erb has been tinkering with cars as long as he can remember. Dave is an ASE Certified Master L1 Technician with 21 years experience in automotive care and maintenance. Dave opened...read more

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"I'm Dave Erb from Dave's Ultimate Automotive and we're going to be talking about how to diagnose an alignment problem. First indication that you would have an alignment problem is possibly if you're driving down the road and the car pulls from one side to another, in other words if you let go of the wheel it wants to drive you to the right or to the left. This may indicate an alignment problem, it also may indicate a tire problem. So at that point if you're having a pulling issue and you go look at the tires and you see something like this, which is that the tire's worn much more on the outside than it is on the middle or the inside, or vice versa, if the tire's in the other direction, if it was worn on the inside as opposed to the middle or the outside, then that would indicate an alignment issue. One of the alignment angles, possibly the cam or the toe being off, would cause the tire to wear like this. As far as what would be wrong with that, or what would cause an alignment problem, parts wearing out, hitting off a curb and bending a part would cause the alignment to go out. Alignments just don't go out on their own, over time you might have springs that sag, once again parts that wear that would cause it to go out of alignment. So at that point you need to really put it on an alignment machine, check the alignment, and then have a technician properly diagnose whether it's a part failure or something bent or why it was bent. But the first indication is how does it drive and what do the tires look like, and that's really how you troubleshoot an alignment."

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