About a week ago I had an alignment down on my fd and it was handling great. Now yesterday my wife took it to get the oil changed(I'm in Korea and the car isn't so I can't do it) and they rotated the tires. She says now the car handles like ****. I don't know what else they may have done or if they put it on a lift, but could just rotating the tires make my alignment go to ****? Also, since it was a goodyear store, should I try to get them to align the car again since they seem to have affected it? Thanks.

 

Are the tires on there uni-directional? Make sure they are all going the same way.

 

They are kumho Ecsta's, but I'm not sure if they are unidirectional.

 

i am pretty sure they are. but i thought that uni-directional tires going the wrong way will only realy make a ton more road noise and not handle in the wet as well. what did she mean did it track the road funny? hell i would be scared they did not tighten the lug nuts. that will make for a funny ride def

 

She said the car would pull to one side or the other. I'm not sure which, or both she didn't specify.

 

thats bad. sorry to hear that man. just take it back. is she handy? i would check the lugs for safety sake. it would not be the first time someone flat-rated a tire rotation job. gl

 

thing is the place is closed for Easter and she leaves early in the morning Monday to drive 500 miles to Indianna from Minnesote, so she doesn't really have a chance to take it back since it won't be open early enough on when she leaves. I may try to convince her to hold off a few hours and have them fix it. It can't be safe or good for the car to drive it when its handling so shity. I really just want to know if I can have her go back to them and say "hey you screwed up my alignment so what are you going to do about it?" but I wouldn't have her do that if it wasn't their fault.

 

you are unsatisfied so take it back. it could be alot of things let them find out or correct the prob.

 

Sounds like a good plan

 

Tell her to check the air preasure. Low air preasure could make it feel weird.

 

most probable: air pressure. 30 fr, 27-28 rear cold.

howard coleman

 

Maybe stupid question, but how familiar is your wife with the car? Has she driven it alot and familiar with how it usually drives? If she is UNfamiliar with it, is it possible she was just on some crappy road with a high crown? I know my car will tend to track funny on such roads. FWIW, I'm running BFG KDWs (uni-directional) and had my alignment done less than 4K ago.

 

she's driven it more than 3 thousand miles.