Nissan: 2001 Sentra SE pulling to right

"xxx" <com> wrote in message
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where was the tread worn on the first set of tires
evenly
inside
outside

Jeff

do you have the alignment specks at the time you had it aligned ?



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xxx wrote:
 

It's the tires. They probably replaced the good one rather than the bad one!
The fact the -pull- moved when you moved the tires shows this plainly. A
rim isn't going to do this.

The vibration is probably a bad tire balance. Seems many tire shops use out
of calibration tire balancers due to heavy use? We fix LOTS of balance
problems caused by tire stores. Either the people balancing the tires don't
know how to properly use the equipment or the equipment is in need of
repair.

Same with alignments. It's dificult to find someone who can do something as
simple as an alignment correctly. They buy $$$$$ computer aligners and then
never calibrate them. The more complex the alignment equipment, the easier
it is for it to get knocked out of calibration.

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Steve

http://www.atlantaracing.com

"jeff" <net> wrote in message news:<pICSb.45$uswest.net>... 


On the outside of both front tires.

Steve T <com> wrote in message news:<bvf68h$rog7i$news.uni-berlin.de>... 

I saw them replace the one that was thought to be bad. When the front
tires were switched, the pull switched and that front tire was the one
that was replaced. However, after the tire was replaced and the back
tires were moved the front, there was still a pull.
 

The manager of the store said that they balanced it 2 different ways
and were balanced. Unfortanetly, I don't have the money to go
somewhere else.
 


Again, I don't have the money to go somewhere else, I just have to
keep going back to the same place that is willing to work with me for
free.

I have been considering just going back to the tire store and
returning the tires and buying a different brand. I am just really
unhappy with how the car rides on the highway. I don't think I could
deal with it for the next 50K miles.

com (xxx) wrote in message news:<google.com>... 

I am just also curious, the original tires were 195/55/16 (yes, I have
the SE model and they have a weird size). It was more economical to
get the 205/55/16 tires (which were an alternative size according to
the book). However, I was doing some research online and read
somewhere that I should have gotten 205/50/16 to make up for the
difference larger width. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? And
could this be causing my problems?

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If you change the size of the tires, then all *FOUR* tires need to be
changed because the car will pull to the smaller tire if both tires are
moving at the same speed, which seems to be your case because the Sentra
SE is a front wheel drive. This is also murder on your automatic
transaxle as well because the differential is working while you are
driving down the road trying to compensate. From the sizes that you
posted, the tire that should have been moved to the back is not the one
that the car is pulling to, but pulling from. If then rotated the tire
that is was pulling to, then you will still have the problem.

Do you have anitlock brakes? The controllers are calibrated to operate
on a certian circumpherence size of the tire because the speed sensor is
usually mounted on a smaller diameter disk, usually on the CV half-shaft
at or near the wheel bearing and it must convert the data from the
sensor to linear speed, which is directly related to the size of the
tire. Yes, this is a safety issue. I would install a new set of tires
that are the original size.

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Daniel Rudy

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