Hi,
My Lexus dealer put my winter tyres on my IS 250 in November last year and afterwards I noticed that the car was veering to the right.
I have been too busy/lazy (delete as applicable) to get around to checking it out until 2007 ... the car is still driveable.
It is more noticeable at +120kph and if I lift my hands of the wheel then the car drives straight for a little while and suddenly, a few seconds seconds later, starts veering and within 5 seconds the whole car has changed lane.
I have not had an accident or hit a kerb or anything ... the problem seems (I think) to co-incide with the changing of the tyres. The car is new, the tyres are new .. there is no visable damage on them that could cause the problem.
The Lexus dealer told me that this is common problem with winter tyres and switching the 2 front tyres usually solves it (indeed, I experienced the same problem/solution before with my old car).
So, they switched the tyres and ... it didn't solve it.
The next option was to put the summer tyres back on, because it was fine when I last had them on and (so the dealer said) in rare cases this problem can be caused by bad tyres.
So, we put the summer tyres back on and ... the problem is still there.
So I left the car with the dealer to test-drive and they couldn't reproduce the problem. I had to go and take the on a test-drive myself to show the problem and, sure enough, they can now see what I am talking about.
But the computer system they have reports that all the alignments are okay and so, at the moment, they are loathe to change anything until getting an answer back from Lexus directly to see if they have seen this problem before.
In the meantime I guess this problem is slowly degrading my tyres.
Does anyone have a clue what could cause such a thing? My dealer doesn't :-(
Thanks
Chris
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