Talking Sammich
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So, a little background....
got my care in november i think, love it to death, but since day of purchase it has always pulled right, just a little, but enough that 90% of the time i had the stearing whell canted to the left by a few degrees all the time. I wanted to just go back and get an alignment right away, but I am moving to another state where I just built a house, so needless to say I am REALLY busy and often am nowhere near a dealer. But since I am leaving TX for good here pretty soon, I went to get my blind spot detection recall done and had the do the alignment as well. Long story short it was WAY out of wack, see pic.
Here's the part where it gets interesting. Dealers will often tell people that cars are SUPPOSED to pull right, no joke, my dealer said this too, but being that I know how suspension works and the fast that the rep who was spouting this trash didn't even know what a crown or camelbacks were, I just bit the bullet and said look, im paying for it, just do it anyway. I had to rotate anyway, almost at 5k miles, so bal, rot, align. One thing there head tech guy would apparently is THE last word at my dealership said the before readings are VERY common, but heres what, to me at least, says there is some manufacturing tweaking that needs to be done in Ulsan, he stated it is ALWAYS the left rear, that will in short order, push everything else out of wack, at 4600 miles or so, I can confirm this. Yes I know I am a sample group of one, but this guy sees this everyday, as it were.
So, does your awd palisade pull right a little? is it brand new? go get an alignment and post the before and after specs. If this is ONE tech at ONE dealership that has seen SO many, it is a reasonable suggestion that this is a widespread but probably unknown issue. But its not just the steering, componentry, safety, etc, its the fact that it will scrub the ever livin shizzle out of your tires and if it just a wheel or two and nothing is done, you'll be buying a whole new set, with MY numbers at least had I not done anything, well before 15k miles. new tires for a limited are gonna run you around 1200-1500 depending on choice. I prefer Mich Pilot A/S, but thats just me.
anyhoo, check out the specs, interesting stuff. BTW, bone stock, no funny business has been done, no modding.
got my care in november i think, love it to death, but since day of purchase it has always pulled right, just a little, but enough that 90% of the time i had the stearing whell canted to the left by a few degrees all the time. I wanted to just go back and get an alignment right away, but I am moving to another state where I just built a house, so needless to say I am REALLY busy and often am nowhere near a dealer. But since I am leaving TX for good here pretty soon, I went to get my blind spot detection recall done and had the do the alignment as well. Long story short it was WAY out of wack, see pic.
Here's the part where it gets interesting. Dealers will often tell people that cars are SUPPOSED to pull right, no joke, my dealer said this too, but being that I know how suspension works and the fast that the rep who was spouting this trash didn't even know what a crown or camelbacks were, I just bit the bullet and said look, im paying for it, just do it anyway. I had to rotate anyway, almost at 5k miles, so bal, rot, align. One thing there head tech guy would apparently is THE last word at my dealership said the before readings are VERY common, but heres what, to me at least, says there is some manufacturing tweaking that needs to be done in Ulsan, he stated it is ALWAYS the left rear, that will in short order, push everything else out of wack, at 4600 miles or so, I can confirm this. Yes I know I am a sample group of one, but this guy sees this everyday, as it were.
So, does your awd palisade pull right a little? is it brand new? go get an alignment and post the before and after specs. If this is ONE tech at ONE dealership that has seen SO many, it is a reasonable suggestion that this is a widespread but probably unknown issue. But its not just the steering, componentry, safety, etc, its the fact that it will scrub the ever livin shizzle out of your tires and if it just a wheel or two and nothing is done, you'll be buying a whole new set, with MY numbers at least had I not done anything, well before 15k miles. new tires for a limited are gonna run you around 1200-1500 depending on choice. I prefer Mich Pilot A/S, but thats just me.
anyhoo, check out the specs, interesting stuff. BTW, bone stock, no funny business has been done, no modding.
