They can be designed to have a staggered wheelbase, but they are NOT. Just open a service manual for any car and you will find the wheelbase one each side is identical. Cars are built to a tolerance so that wheelbase may vary +/6 mm.
If you think a lead can be created by 2 to 3mm, you are delusional.
I have set up race car’s alignments and raced them for over 35 years as well as developed chassis for GM for 25 years. I know this is bogus.
Then explain the left drift I’ve felt in most cars built after 2000.
As you know I’m fastidious about tire pressures, so the issue isn’t with that.
As for alignments I’ve had done, I’ve never had anything, post-alignment, outside of side-to-side tolerances.
My avg weight since 2000 is about 185lbs.
So my assertion stands: What is published in wheelbase specs may differ from actual. Either that, or the entire car is built slightly banana-shaped, so it wants to turn left more readily than right.
I’d guess the problem is you and not the cars.
That would show up in the thrust angle when you do an alignment, which I have been doing for over 30 years now and not just read a book on it… Most if not all the cars you have had since 2000 do not even have factory caster/camber adjustments, just toe and go on the fronts, even vehicles with rear camber adjustments normally don’t have front camber/caster adjustments…
You can read all about heart surgery’s too, doesn’t make you an expert nor a heart surgeon…
I have an Associate degree in Automotive Technology, have well over 30 years of hands on experience, studied everything mechanical about vehicles, have done about everything, if not everything mechanical to vehicles, had my ASE’s without studying for them, passed with flying colors after being out of school for over 15 years, only missed 2 questions again without studying (read nothing, just took the test) the Brakes, and not many more with suspension and steering, the other the same… But that dang sure doesn’t make me an engineer… lol
Data and experience contradict your assertions.
You can make up your own opinion but you can’t make up your own facts.
I know what I felt, i’m not making it up.
Even in cars I’ve had realigned, the car drifts left just enough, even on a well crowned road, that I occasionally have to nudge it back to the right with the steering wheel.
Maybe the vehicles Chris has drift left because of that heavy CRT television in the back seat.
That’s a possibility. The last CRT TV that I bought (in 1996) was a (relatively) large-screen SONY model. It was so heavy that my friend and I had to take a rest while lugging it from my driveway to my front door.
That thing was incredibly heavy, as well as being big and boxy. And, of course, that state-of-the art 1996 CRT’s resolution was very poor in comparison with my OLED LG.
… is overrated, and not the only measure of a quality picture.
Keep going!
You won’t get suspended for the same behavior because you’re in the clique.
Why is it that you never respond to posts that reference your suspension? Despite your somewhat-improved behavior in the forum, do you think that people have forgotten about your past abuses?
That’s funny Chris, cause you joined this forum a month before I did and I remember Mr Volvo-V70 being suspended for a little while…
I am not in any clique on here, heck almost everyone on here 100% disagrees with my, well, will just say certain views about certain subjects, I defiantly am not in the same social group in life as most, always been a grease monkey, and I have never been suspended on any forum…
Just don’t argue with everyone about most everything… Say your piece as everyone will see it and move on, you can debate it a few times, but when no one agrees with you, you are not gonna change their minds, especially when they are trained with hands on experience… Not trying to be mean, just trying to help you out some, how you take it is up to you…
I have had six post 2000 cars&trucks. Currently an F150 4X4 and a Mustang.
Number of these vehicleS that pull to either the left or right, whether on dirt, two lane, four lane or more, surface or interstates at speeds of 1 MPH to 90+ MPH is ZERO.
Yes you are! You’re in the drag race loving clique! Me too. Welcome home, Dave.
That depends on your perspective. My hierarchy of respect for others is probably very much like yours. Honesty, decency, love and loyalty to family top my list. I bet they top yours too. I must admit that your Mopar thing is problematic for me, but that’s small in comparison to the important things.