Re: Is this a sign of bad alignment?

["Jay Docherty" <jdoc@postoffice.ptd.net>]

If the car drifts when you release the wheel, is usually a good sign 
that the wheels are out of alingment.  However if you release the 
wheel and the car goes straight BUT the wheel isn't straight means 
that over the course of cars life past owners have brought the car to 
garages and they put the car on thier "perfect" alignment computers 
and screwed with everything.  Thus a car the goes straight but the 
wheel is crooked.

Example, two years ago when I first bought my 16v it the car dialed 
perfectly.  But then I bought new tires for it and the alignment went 
to hell, so I brought it to the garage and the car never dialed 
perfect again.  Although it does coast straight, the wheel is not.

                           Jay

VW Scirocco 1988 16v
VW Scirocco 1980
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