Toyota Camry: 2002 Camry Pulls Right

This is reticules, I am looking at a 2002 Camry shop manual, there are more then three pages on aligning the front end and one page on aligning the rear end. Take this car to a shop that specialized in aligning Toyota cars and let them fix this problem.

Jack.

"Wilhelm Rossini" <com> wrote in message news:google.com... 

BS, I did a laser alignment on my 2002 Camry LE V6 and it works just fine
and there are rear settings for alignment
"Wilhelm Rossini" <com> wrote in message
news:google.com... 

He DID take the car to an alignment shop. While camber and caster
are not adjustable on those cars, toe is adjustable both from and
rear. When front and rear are not aligned correctly, the car will
'dog track' down the road and pull to one side. Seemingly small
differences in tire ACTUAL diameter will result in the steering
pulling to one side. Sometimes the well intentioned act of rotating
your tires will bring on a steering pull.
--

* Philip

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know"
-Bing Crosby
 

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

Excuse me for mentioning this unpleasant prospect, but have you slid
under the front of the car with a flash light to look for any signs of
frame damage or straightening?
Or if you just drive up to a body shop, the techs can usually spot
(even good) body work (indicating prior accident damage) at a glance.
The suspension components on the Camry are basically fixed. The toe in
is adjustable front and rear, but the struts form an integral part of
the suspension, and while their mounting points could possibly be
wiggled very slightly, essentially there is no factory adjustment for
caster or camber -- if the struts, control arms, bushings, and strut
mounts are in good condition, the alignment should be right.
If you've already switched tires side to side, I'd be checking for
frame or body damage next, especially with a recently purchased used
car.
With unitized or "monocoque" construction, any significant impact
could tweak the frame/ body to cause your drifting problem.

So when one replaces the struts it isn't necessary to have the car aligned?
All instructions I've read state that you do -- but replaceing struts
doesn't affect toe.

"Daniel M. Dreifus" <com> wrote in message
news:google.com... 
news:<google.com>... 

"Wolfgang" <net> wrote in message news:<ZPlBb.55881$yM6.19724@lakeread06>... 

This brings up another interesting question with 'strut cartridges' too. I
recently replaced all 4 shocks on my wife's 93 XLE camry which had the
replaceable cartridges. When I put in the new cartridges (Tokico), I
noticed there is a little bit of play between the cartridge and strut wall.
Ie. the fit tolerance is not supertight, so when you put the retainer nut
onto the strut again, the shock arm may not be perfectly centered with
respect to the strut. The retainer ring nut that came with the new
cartridges has a wider hole than the strut arm since the actual shock seal
now is part of the cartridge itself rather than being integrated into the
retaining nut like the original strut. This has got to affect alignment. I
did not pay real close attention to this. I did notice after finishing and
test driving the camry, there was a noticeable pull to the right. I hope I
don't have to pull all 4 struts again to fix this. I am replacing all
4 tires and will be getting a 4 wheel alignment this week. So I guess I'll
have to wait and see how the car responds after that.

davemac

I had a similar problem with my 2001 Camry LE V6. I took it to the
dealer 3 times and insisted the car be realigned properly before it
was finally fixed. Car was pulling to the left.

On 8 Dec 2003 14:33:11 -0800, com (Wilhelm Rossini)
wrote:
 

"Philip®" <net.invalid> wrote in message
news:Q4aBb.6286$news.pas.earthlink.net... 
OK, so assuming they find one position for all tires that produce a minimum
pull can he ever rotate tires without having to live with more pull? Is
there a possible fix? What should he have done when he bought the tires?