Hello, I went to get a front tire on my car changed and now my steering wheel is not straight. It seems as if it is out of line or something. What could this be and should I take it back to where they changed it at. Thankx for any and all input.
Why is my steering wheel not straight?
your car is out of alignment and just putting on new tires won't change the alignment so don't blame the people that put your tires on.
Why is my steering wheel not straight?
Sounds like you need an alignment.
sounds like an alignment issue. I would take it to the shop that did the tire if it wasn't like that before and see what they say.
If you only changed one front tire and they didn't rotate your tires than you have one tire larger than the other up front which may cause your steering to be off. You should take it back. Any shop will fix something they did with no cost to you.
If it was straight prior to the tire change I doubt it is an alignment issue.
if you let go of the wheel and the car pulls to the left or right that means your other front tire should be changed as well. or you just need an alignment.
You need to get a wheel alignment done. Your steering alignment is out. The tire place didn't do anything wrong. Sounds like you may of knocked the alignment out or bent something.
Sounds like you need an alignment. not kidin
The diameter of the new tire is probably slightly different than the old tire. Generally tires should be replaced in two's. If all your tires are relatively new, you could change the front and rear tires. If that doesn't solve the problem you'll need a front end alignment. You may need one anyway if you replaced only one tire because you hit something hard enough to damage your tire you may have easily knocked the front end out of whack.
Yes bring it back. Sounds like you need a front end allignment. Usually if they do not ballance the tires properly the car pulls to the L or R if you are traveling straight and carefully let go of stearing for a few seconds. If your stearing wheel is at an angle then something got whacked pretty good when they were changing it. Is your car sporty? They could have hit a curb hard when they 'test drove' it. I had 3 new tires put into my convertable camaro when it when in for an oil change! (my fun toy to drive not theirs!! They blew out 3 of my tires!)
Get you car re-alligned
