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    Ford Ford Advice Ford Falcon Ford Falcon Advice Ford Falcon 1991
    We have an EB Falcon station wagon on which the outside edge on the front tyres were wearing away, but it steered straight on the road if you released the steering wheel. After having a four-wheel alignment the car steers to the left if the steering wheel is released. This could be due to the camber of the road, but it means I'm always fighting to keep the car going straight. Which direction should the car go if the steering wheel is released on a stretch of open road?
    Answered by CarsGuide
    12 February 2004
    Graham Smith

    If the wheel alignment is correct the car should steer straight ahead when you take your hands off the wheel, unless the road camber is quite pronounced and then it might steer slightly to the left. If your car markedly steers left when you let the wheel go there is something wrong. Has your car been in a crash? If so, it may have been incorrectly repaired and not straight. It amazes me how many cars you see on the road that are not visually straight, that is, they are crabbing down the road. I recently saw a Laser so far from straight the driver needed a quarter turn of lock to hold a straight line -- he wasn't so much steering it as sailing it. I'd get someone to drive the EB while you observe from a following car and see if the rear wheels are in line and tracking in line with the front ones.

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