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Old 11-10-2008, 08:22 AM
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As most of you know, I have installed a turbo on the car which has produced an enormous amount of power and really makes the car even more fun to drive. I was driving around Friday to work and noticed that only under hard acceleration, the car pulls to the left. If I start at a dead stop and get on it, I find myself having to gently nug the car to the right because it pulls left...when driving on the interstate doing 60 and I accelerate, again the car pull hard to the left. If I just drive normally at 60mph, the car drives as straight as can be. When I brake the car drives straight with no pulling to the left at all.

So with all of these symptoms, what would you guess the problem might be?

The answer is soon to come!!!
Old 11-10-2008, 08:40 AM
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Old 11-10-2008, 08:49 AM
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Rear tire pressure, low on left.
Old 11-10-2008, 08:53 AM
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Check your tire pressures.
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Rear tire is very likely low as stated above.
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Originally Posted by raymo19,Nov 10 2008, 12:49 PM
Rear tire pressure, low on left.
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Old 11-11-2008, 06:22 AM
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And yes everyone is correct, the left tire was very low on tire pressure.

"Jack tell them what they've won!!!"

If you look at the tire it looks fine, but after putting a tire gauge on it, it was very low. Boy did I feel like an idiot I guess these low profile tires can be very deceiving when it comes to tire pressure.

I send this out as a reminder to all to regularly check your tire pressure.
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Yay! It was only the tire pressure.
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Kinda scary ain't it? You mash the gas and the car goes all suicidal and wants to cross the center line.
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checked all tires on all cars this past weekend


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