Scott Evil

My car is a 2004 with 12,8xx miles. I recently pulled it out of storage and put on a brand new set of Goodyear F1 DS-G3's on 17 inch BBS RGRs. The car has never been wrecked.

Ever since I put the new tires on, the car pulls to the right when I step on the clutch and upshift. In fact any time I lift off a moderate or greater throttle, the car pulls right. Imagine rolling along at 80, lifting off the throttle and having the car pull into the next lane--it sucks a bit.

The wheels and tires are new, 17x7.5 215/45 front and 17x8.5 245/40 rears. I assumed this was an alignment problem, but the car is within specs all around--just checked this weekend. The tires are 34 PSI all around.

Under acceleration or coasting/braking the car tracks perfectly straight. I am going to try to find someone to swap wheels and tires with me to confirm it is (or is not) the new wheels and tires.

One suggestion posted in UTH was a "bad tire." Any other ideas would be helpful.

Jim@tirerack

It can be a radial pull in one of the front tires. If you took off one of the new tires and wheels off the front and put your old one back on and it stops you would know it is the tire you took off. If it still happens try the same thing on the other front tire and see what happens.

Race Miata

Swap left and right tires. Don't worry about rotation direction. Just don't test drive in the wet. If the car veers the other way, you know it's the tires.

Scott Evil

Swapped the front tires with no change. Swapped the rear tires and the car now pulls left off throttle. Looks a like a bad rear one--or both.

thanks.

Jim@tirerack

You actually need to do one tire at a time. Thant way you can isolate the tire that is causing the problem.