O/T: The kind of folks I work with...

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Lars is correct, a truely "aligned" car will have a pull to the right.

Most alignmnet shops to tweek the car are purpose to have a pull to the
left, to negate the natural crest of the road.

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

1981 Scirocco S (TDI swap project)
1988 Audi 90 Quattro
1990 Corrado TDI
1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)

Lars Bruchmann said:
> harmonic balancer??  does my radio have one???  haha.
> the car pulling to the right is a result of the crown
> of the road: it's a deliberate feature of roads,
> designed to conduct water to the edge of the road.
> subsiquently, it also conducts sleeping drivers into
> the ditch.
> --- David Utley <fahrvegnugen@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Okay, this was too stupid not to share and since the
>> list is slow...
>>
>> I just heard a story about one of the service
>> writers here, we have four and -none- of them are
>> mechanical at all...  First, a little background on
>> this fella.  He has been with the company at least
>> 12 to 13 years.  First, he was a car salesman.
>> Next, he was a finance manager.  Then he was new car
>> manager over Kia.  NOW, he is a service writer (he
>> is too good an ass-kisser to be fired, I s'pose).
>> Okay, he was consoling a customer about their car
>> pulling to the right...  He replied, " Oh, that is a
>> feature of VWs, that's deliberate.  They do that so
>> that if you fall asleep, it will go off the road
>> instead of into traffic..."  Okay, with that logic,
>> then the sludging problems with the 1.8Ts in the
>> Passat is actually a feature that stops the car from
>> over-revving, right?  (banging head)...
>>
>> Okay, another story...  One of the other service
>> writers wrote a ticket with the line description as
>> follows:  'Customer states there is a noise from the
>> harmonic balancer, check radio and replace as
>> necessary..."  Like I said, they are not
>> mechanical...
>>
>> Have a good day today...
>>
>> David  <---  Doing time in the stupid house, yo...
>>
>> Chrome may make it bling, but it don't make the
>> engine sing...
>>
>>
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