1992-1999 Series I L27 (1992-1994 SE,SLE, SSE) & Series II L36 (1995-1999 SE, SSE, SLE) and common problems for the Series I and II L67 (all supercharged models 92-99) Including Olds 88's, Olds LSS's and Buick Lesabres Please use General Chat for non-mechanical issues, and Performance and Brainstorming for improvements.

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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 10:00 AM
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One of the new tires may have radial pull. Rotate the front to back and see if the problem goes away. If so, go back and get a replacement tire.
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by reb
One of the new tires may have radial pull. Rotate the front to back and see if the problem goes away. If so, go back and get a replacement tire.

Okay... So I went back to NTB and they cross rotated my front tires and had me test drive it to see if the pull went away or to see if the pull shifted to the left. Well after the test drive I noticed the car did start to pull slightly to the left and was no longer pulling to the right. Looks like it might just be a bad (new) tire and I guess it is radial pull (never heard of that before, but makes sense). The manager at NTB took it a notch further and re-did my alignment (front and back) as well as a cradle shift and was able to damn near zero me out on caster, toe and camber. I am going back this Saturday to the tire shop where I purchased the tires to have both fronts replaced.
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 12:10 PM
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you got lucky, some of use have this problem and it isn't tires. That is the easy fix
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