Slight Pull to Right after Tires and Two Alignments

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Anyone know of anything else we need to do to our trucks (with the VGRS system, etc.) after an alignment?

I bought new tires (Michelin Latitudes) at Mavis, they performed an alignment (warrantied for 90 days), after which I now feel a slight pull to the right.

After a couple of months, I brought my truck back to a different Mavis location (to redo the alignment), which they did, but while it seems to make things a little better, I still feel a slight pull to the right.

Does anything else need to be reset? Should I try ‘tweaking’ tire pressure? If so, how should it be ‘adjusted’ to compensate for a slight pull to the right?

Thanks. :|
 
If you just noticed it when the tires went on, you've likely isolated the problem.

Check tire pressures all the way around. I always do this after new shoes go on. Last weekend, I found as much as a 5lb range in variance with them all (41-46lbs). This is the first place to look.

Do NOT just compensate by changing tire pressure. Your truck may as well just be out of alignment... Tires on left and right should be the same.

Is it possible your truck was in an accident before you owned it? It's possible that it drove "straight" before if it was out of alignment, but now that the wheels are properly aligned, it's pulling.
 
Do you have the alignment printouts? If the alignment machine is accurate and the vehicle has been properly aligned, I'd look at the tires.

Did you put the new tires on the front? Conicity (non-uniform tire) can cause a vehicle to pull, although I don't think I've heard of it with a Michelin tire. Road force checking a tire can help find this, but I don't believe indexing will fix a conicity issue with a tire.... Road force balance and indexing the wheel to the tire can help with balance issues. Try swapping the two front tires and see if that helps or makes it pull left.

Also keep in mind tire pressures, road crown, and wind. Find a perfectly flat road to road test it. Both of my cars drive slightly right, but pretty much every road has a crown sloping to the right.
 
Had the truck since new, so no accident in particular caused this.

I believe they did reach to access and adjust the camber on the second alignment (maybe the problem is that they adjusted same in the first place as well, when it shouldn't have been!?).

Unfortunately, no printouts. Good suggestion on swapping the front two wheels!

I’m aware of road crown, but it didn’t do this before. :(

Thanks for your help gentlemen!
 
if you still have a pull after all of these adjustments try to cross rotate the two front tires. Ive seen it at our dealership quite a few times. sometimes it actually the tires.
 
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