BMW: M# pulling to the right

Also try going to a dealer/tire store with a road-force balancer and ask
them to place them where the machine says it will track the straightest.
But, in all honesty, if all the rims are straight, and the alignment in
dialed in, it's probably the tires.


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Check the tires. Of all the possibilities, this is the *cheapest* and
*easiest* to test and address. You can rarely *see* a fault on a tire
that's presenting a slight problem like this. By the time a fault is
visible, the steering wheel's shaking in your hands and the dismounted
wheel/tire won't roll across a smooth floor (Wanna know how I know?).
Swap the fronts to the rear *one side at a time*. If the problem goes
away, you know *which* tire is causing it. It'll be the one you just
stuck on the rear. If the problem persists, it is either not a tire
(probably) or you've got *two* bad tires on the same side (highly
unlikely).

You seem to be trying very hard to violate the general rule of looking
at the cheap and easy answer because you already paid for other work
that didn't fix the problem and you didn't like the suggestion in the
first place. Look at it this way: Your car probably needed an
alignment anyway (Did you see the 'before & after' numbers on a
printout? Were any adjustments done?) and you cannot check for a tire
problem on a car that's not properly aligned. While you may feel the
dealer is trying to shift the blame away from a poor alignment job,
the procedure that's been followed is the correct one. Further, if
there were anything wrong with other suspension components, they would
have been glad to sell and install them for you, don't you think? So
check the tires.
--
C.R. Krieger
(Been there; done that)

"C.R. Krieger" <com> wrote 

I agree with Chuck. Swap the tires left/right or front/rear. If the
drift goes away or changes to the other direction, you'll know.
Every high performance car I've ever driven has been extremely
sensitive to tire wear. BMWs are no exception.

Floyd

C.R. Krieger wrote: 
My buddies '95 M3 had the same symptoms when he bought it used. It
turned out that the fronts and rears have different size tires and
someone had swapped a front wheel to the rear and vice versa. He swapped
them back and the problem was solved.