Pulls to the Right

[linuxgod]

They worked on it and drove it, then said everything is within 0.01 of where it should be, they asked if it was pulling to the right just a tiny bit, I said yes, they said it's a safety feature so if I fall asleep or something the vehicle pulls to the right off the road. One other person in the office agreed, I was surprised as I hadn't heard of it, but let it go as something new I learned. Is this true? I haven't been able to find *anything* confirming this online. In addition, I don't recall this being a thing on my vehicle until after I changed the tires.

@Taco2Cruiser can correct me, but alignment specs typically call for slightly more caster or less camber on the right side to correct for the crown on the road. So if your road is flat, you'll drift slightly left and find yourself manually correcting to the right a bit. They also call for (or most alignment shops adjust for) cross-camber (or cross-caster) which is supposed to cause you to drift slightly right if you let go of the wheel. The supposed idea is that if you fall asleep at the wheel on the highway you'll drift off to the right side of the road and only kill yourself instead of drifting to the left and running head-on into oncoming traffic.

I did notice after my shop increased caster and decreased camber the steering on my LC requires a lot less minor adjustment on the highway. With the factory tires on stock suspension and Toyota alignment I found myself regularly adjusting left and right. Now on the highway I can pretty much drive with a light touch and just one hand, and I'm on 34's with a 2" lift. @LALC if you have your alignment specs post them, but if you end up going back for any adjustments I would ask the shop to push the caster up closer to the max since what's considered "in spec" is a pretty wide range (2.2 to 3.7 degrees).

FWIW here's my specs

 

[LALC]

Thanks for the replies. I just called and spoke to their master and he confirmed that's not true. He's going to talk with the guy who did it and pull up the alignment info and call me back.

 

[Russell Brown]

I got a lift to level out the front of the vehicle with back height (icon coilovers). I went to get the alignment at my local Toyota shop. They said they could not get the alignment in spec due to the ride height being unlovely in the front. Left side of vehicle is aprox 1/2 inch lower than the right.

They did try to align the front end which got rid of the shopping cart feel it had, but it pull to the right.

I asked the shop that installed the lift and they said the pulling to the right had nothing to do with the left side being lower than the right.
They told me to take it to another. Shop for alignment. I did and it still pulls to the right. I went back and the switched the front tires. This did not work. The vehicle still pulls right.

So...is the uneven lift causing it to pull to the right?