@@StupidBlokeStupidVideos any video endorsed by SBSV is well worth the viewing time. Can we have some Gary Numan Cars as the opening music on one of your video's?
A straight steering wheel is not always what you get after the professionals do your tracking! The lazy way is to adjust one side only and advise the customer they need to remove and refit their steering wheel to get it straight. I'm guessing this guy was being extra professional for your sake 😀
Haha I’ve had that before. Problem then is that you get more turns one way than the other! This guy always does my cars bang on. Any decent 4 wheel alignment place will clamp the steering wheel central and adjust it in relation to the rear wheels to get a centred steering wheel though
Took my Mondeo to Kwik fit to have tracking done . Picked it up after having it done now it's doing exactly the same steering wheel not straight and when straighten drifts to the left
@@casparharte either that or they just didn’t bother centralising the steering wheel and aligning the tracking with the rear. A lot of places never used to, but I think it’s uncommon for them to just adjust the front and not square it to the rear these days
For the sake of £50 ish quid at your local workshop, take it there and get it done properly! All that guess work is a false economy and you'll be replacing tyres sooner than you think. Even cheap bike tyres that you have on your 'puddle jumper' bud!!!!
@@staggtastic9951 in my experience I can generally get it not far off by feel, but it’s only ever as a temp measure until I can get it in for tracking.
I have the same car. I have had an alignment done twice by the same mechanic, and yet my steering wheel points slightly to the left when going straight. It doesn't feel like It's pulling in any direction after I switched to summer tires, but on my winter tires (which were brand new) the car was constantly pulling to the right. Would you recommend I just get another alignment done at some other place? After I got the second alignment done the mechanic told me my steering wheel might be off center because the rear alignment is off, and that they couldn't do anything about it since It isn't adjustable. Every mechanic I have asked about it has said that it sounds like nonsense and that the rear alignment can't affect the position of my steering wheel, but idk. I'm a complete idiot and I don't really know anything about cars.
The tracking can be good and the steering wheel still off, it happens when the tracking is adjusted on basic gauges without lining it to the rear wheels. The car will still drive straight as the tracking of the front wheels just means that both wheels are pointing in the right direction relative to each other, as in no excessive toe in or out. Even though the rear on these cars isn’t adjustable, someone who’s good at tracking will compensate for it as best possible. The place that did mine always get my steering wheel central.
Yea if you take the wheel off, you’ve got to make sure the squib is aligned and hold it there, or else it seems to want to spin into the wrong position.
I do computerised trackings day in day out, easy as fuck to do they just require you to reset the steering + suspension after you move the toe angle by steering the wheel and re-centering. If you take your car to have a tracking and the wheel is still wonky after its almost never the steering angle sensor or anything like that and usually is just down to lazy bastards, always fight for your money or a free re-track
I think it’s often down to the equipment used too. Some places only set the front wheels, not in relation to the rear and then your toe is usually ok but the wheel off centre
@@StupidBlokeStupidVideos Yes I have to agree, 2 wheel mode is much quicker to do and solves shoulder wear but will never centre the wheel as it doesn't have the rear to calculate true straight, so all the machine can tell you is the difference of the fronts and give you a rough "forward" direction
