Greetings, All!

A week ago I finally got around to putting the snows on my '81 245. I run snows on all four wheels. These tires were new last winter, and they served me well. Since I've put the snow tires on, when I drive the car it wants to steer, pretty severely, to the right -- it's almost as if I had a flat front right tire. However, the air pressure on both sides checks out OK. Tomorrow I was intending to put the summer tires back on the front just to make sure it's the tires and not something goofy in my front end.

I should add that I've rotated these snows -- I swapped fronts and rears from their positions of last winter, but I've kept them on the same side.

Can anyone think of why the tracking is so goofed up? Could a tire have gone defective (belt slipping?) during storage over the summer? Since this right front tire was on the right rear last winter, could it have been 'out of true' all along but I didn't notice it since it was on the rear? Other ideas?

Thanks for your tire wisdom.

Rob

The way a tire wears in a certian spot will affec the way the car drives if you put it in another spot.

I can take for example the snows that I put on my car came off my brothers 244 that wore the fronts REALLY bad on the edges and feathered them, so I chose to put those on the back because I didn't want to be tortutred with the pulling and all that.

The bottom line is YES it is the tires, weather they are worn a certian way, or maybe one of them has "seperated" and is causing the pull.

Swap the two fronts from left to right and vice varsa, and see if the car pulls the other way. if it does, then you KNOW you hav a worn/bad tire

then you could just swap and put them on the back.

Good luck.

Stefan

Just the fact that the tire change created the problem tells you something.

Start by swapping fronts for rears, and don't assume it's the tire on the pulling side that's causing the problem. You'll probably find that it steers like it did last year.

The only thing other than a tire which does not match its mate due to mis-manufacturing (I'm assuming you have a set of four matched tires) would be a wheel with different offset.