pulls to the left a little when accelerating, not so much when you step on the gas easy,
but settles back down when you let off, get back on and it’s fine…wondering what this is,
and how to fix it, thx for any help
Bad control arm bushing. Replace bushing or control arm.
In the future, please post year, make, model and mileage. Yeah, make and model are in the title but that is not always accurate.
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Have you had the vehicle a long time and it just started doing this?? Or has it been doing this for a long time??
Bad suspension parts as Mustangman already said, but also bad motor/engine mount(s) letting the engine/trans shift a little, or tires not equal tread and or air pressure, unequal length cv axles, I think the left is the short one (nothing you can do about that basically) …
Like Mustangman said, knowing all the vehicle information including the miles and FWD or AWD would help us…
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Unmatched tire pressures can cause a pull.
Have you checked the tire pressures?
Tester
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The left pull, on vehicles built for right-hand drive markets, has since the early 2000s been “designed in”, via a variety of ways:
Alignment angles: unequal side to side camber or caster can cause a drift/ pull to one side or another.
Wheel setback/unequal wheelbase: The car will tend to pull to the side with the shorter wheelbase. Even as little as 1/8th to 1/4 inch difference in wheelbase measure can cause a pull.
This is done to counter road crown/camber, which tends to cause a vehicle to drift toward the curb or shoulder. It’s built-in, but can be corrected somewhat, by manipulating the rear toe to create a thrust angle to offset this built-in pull.