Are the Gen 7 Accord particularly difficult to align? The reason I ask is I am really, really struggling to get a very simple requirement: when the steering wheel is straight the car goes straight with no pull.
Now, I am fully aware of road camber, wheel castor, thrust angle, toe, etc and I've been to 4 separate garages for full 4-wheel laser alignments with different levels of success but I've had no joy from someone who can actually get it 100% bang on. Typically the steering wheel is either +10 or -10 degrees off the centre with various levels of pull (depending on the person who aligns it) Now, I've heard all the usual, oh it the crown on the road, the tyre, etc and I understand these will have a small effect, but point blank when I put the steering wheel straight the car most definitely heads towards the left - not just drift.
Now, ***uming that the 4 separate garages are not all using numpties to do alignments, is there something particular with the Accord? I've had the suspension checked all it all seems fine, tyre pressure is fine. No vibration from the car at speed, etc. It does tramline as expected, but this is generally not an alignment problem.
Could there be anything else? The car has only 74K miles?
This is really p***ing me off. What's worse, it only became an issue when I asked if the alignment could be checked when getting the tyres replaced, it was felt fine prior to the original garage saying it was out and I only asked to check.
Now, I am fully aware of road camber, wheel castor, thrust angle, toe, etc and I've been to 4 separate garages for full 4-wheel laser alignments with different levels of success but I've had no joy from someone who can actually get it 100% bang on. Typically the steering wheel is either +10 or -10 degrees off the centre with various levels of pull (depending on the person who aligns it) Now, I've heard all the usual, oh it the crown on the road, the tyre, etc and I understand these will have a small effect, but point blank when I put the steering wheel straight the car most definitely heads towards the left - not just drift.
Now, ***uming that the 4 separate garages are not all using numpties to do alignments, is there something particular with the Accord? I've had the suspension checked all it all seems fine, tyre pressure is fine. No vibration from the car at speed, etc. It does tramline as expected, but this is generally not an alignment problem.
Could there be anything else? The car has only 74K miles?
This is really p***ing me off. What's worse, it only became an issue when I asked if the alignment could be checked when getting the tyres replaced, it was felt fine prior to the original garage saying it was out and I only asked to check.