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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 07:24 AM
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Angry Help!!

After driving my car for two days i have notice that is pulling to the right, and it seems to have lost the on-center feel while i'm on the highway. I made the dealer put some new rubber on and i'm not sure if they did the aligment. They put Hankook k106 z-rated tires on the car, any thoughts on these tires. Is it an aligment issue or is it a combination of cheap tires and no aligment.
Thank You in advance. Lupo
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 07:49 AM
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funny you should ask

my alignment has been off for quite some time. Just finishing up with the ventus tires now. All I can say is, ride is real real harsh and road noise is not good at all.

Sounds like an alignment issue though. MAybe they did the alignment before putting the new rubber on which would be stupid but dont put anything past MB dealers.
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 12:20 PM
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actually...

got a chance to see my car on alift this morning... gunna finally knock out all those suspension bugs so it drives like new next week...but interestingly enough my rear Ventus were chewed up and real real bald almost no tread left while the front seems perfect almost like new.
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Old Oct 6, 2004 | 08:51 AM
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new tires

well yesterday I went to townfair tire and swaped the hankook for some toyo's proxes4, and also had them align the car. The road noise went down like 80%, but the car seems to still pull to the right, what gives? This is my first mercedes do they all do this, is this problem maybe related to the tilt of tje roads? any ideas? Thanks
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