Steering issue with 275 tires, pulling on grooves/bumps on straights
Steering issue with 275 tires, pulling on grooves/bumps on straights
Ever since I went from a 245/50 to a 275/40 tire, the car will pull firmly to one side or the other when changing lanes and going over very slight grooves or raised places in the center of the highway.
You have to be holding on to the steering wheel pretty firmly.
My '99 WS6 has this wheel size on it stock and it does not do this so I'm thinking it may be some other issue...
On flat pavement cruising it does not pull at all to either side, can go for 20 seconds easy without touching the wheel...just don't ease over to where the pavement is slighly raised or lowered under a tire...
Maybe the toe in or something on the alignment??
You have to be holding on to the steering wheel pretty firmly.
My '99 WS6 has this wheel size on it stock and it does not do this so I'm thinking it may be some other issue...
On flat pavement cruising it does not pull at all to either side, can go for 20 seconds easy without touching the wheel...just don't ease over to where the pavement is slighly raised or lowered under a tire...
Maybe the toe in or something on the alignment??
Tires 
Some brand/model of tires are just bad at tracking road imperfections, I had some Pirelli Pzero Rosso Asimmetrico tires that were really bad at doing that.
I bet if you swap your front wheels/tires from you 99TA it'll be gone.

Some brand/model of tires are just bad at tracking road imperfections, I had some Pirelli Pzero Rosso Asimmetrico tires that were really bad at doing that.
I bet if you swap your front wheels/tires from you 99TA it'll be gone.
They are Dunlop SP8000's on there now I believe thats the number..
I've had it aligned twice since these tires were installed...Hopefully it is just the tires...may try swapping the tires from the WS6 and see what happens, thanks for the idea.
And then they have a 555 Extreme Performance which is what I just got for the rears that have smaller treads / nobbies on the edge. I have 315s on the rear and 275's up front...and the ones on the rear now ride a whole lot smoother than the Dunlops did.
Put the '99 wheels on it and drove it around for about an hour, barely a single pull to either side, so it is the tires, about time for some new ones on the front anyway, but its pulled since these were new..
Here's was the mismatched looked...not quite the look I would be looking for...but I guess its kind of patriotic....red, white, and blue
Here's was the mismatched looked...not quite the look I would be looking for...but I guess its kind of patriotic....red, white, and blue

I have 275 goodyear GSD3's on the front, and they pull pretty bad. But, so did my crappy stock 245's on my car. I aligned mine at work and just did a normal daily driver alignment and didn't help. Maybe the roads around my place are just old and grooved. I have learned to never take my hands off the wheel. haha
Ok, I did have the paper work here...says on there 17X9 5-4.75 ...seems like the 4.75 is the back spacing, can't remember, was 5 years ago when I looked all that up....no on second thought, thats the darn bolt pattern.....doesn't appear that the BS is specified on the sales sheet.
Last edited by 2QUIK6; Apr 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM.


