Mine's been that way since 1998, and I have 80,000 miles on it now. The only downside is that I have to manually cancel the turn signal occasionally. I have such good tire wear that I am afraid of having the tie rods adjusted to fix the problem.

Regards,

Mike Harris in Sandy Eggo

Well Cincykid, if the car is under warranty, you can have the dealer realign the front steering by resetting the tie-rods. You should be able to go down a road with your hands off the wheel, about 20-25mph, and not have it pull one way or the other. If it does, the front end is out of alignment. If you have any faith in the dealership let them do it. (If they don't do it themselves, they may farm it out). If you would rather have it done by an outside firm, and you are in the Cinci area, call "Performance Alignment" out on Grooms
Rd. in Blueash. They are good, and prices are not bad. They have done all our cars for the past 12 yrs or so.

Regards Sam in Cinci.

Most roads are "crowned," in order to allow rainwater to wash to the gutters at the curb. As a result, your car will naturally veer towards the curb. To keep a car with proper alignment in your lane, you will have to have a slight left-turn steer.

Try going on an interstate highway (where the opposite directions are separated by a grass median) and drive in the passing lane. You should experience the opposite phenomenon.

Mine is like that since day 1, '01 S60.

Rene

The steering wheel being off center is no big deal in itself and the tie-rod ends can be marked and both moved slightly in the same direction to center the wheel w/o doing an actual alignment.
On the other hand, if there's unusual tire wear and/or the steering pulls or drifts in either direction when not holding the wheel, then a 4 wheel alignment should be performed and with that, the steering wheel should be perfectly centered.