This past Spring, I went to a place that I usually go to, and I had my tires rotated and balanced.
When I left the shop - my car was pulling really hard to the right. Looking back on it, I *should* have taken the car back and told them what was going on, but I'm a girl and *honestly* I thought that maybe my car needed an alignment, and that the rotation made it more apparent. (I know, I know....STUPID)
So anyways - I went the next day and got an alignment on my car. When the guy took my car out for a ride to make sure the alignment was okay, he found that they car was now pulling to the left.
He asked me if I recently had my tires rotated, and I said yes. He said that it looks like who ever rotated them, messed up the rotation. He then said that he would try to fix them for me. (FYI - my car did not pull before the rotation.) He tried to rotate them back to the way they were, but he did not succeed. I left there with my car pulling to the left.
I was too embarrassed to go back to the place where I got the rotation (I know, that's stupid too). So I've been driving my car like this since May.
The guy who tried to do my alignment told me that getting new tires would probably solve the problem.
Has anyone had this happen to them before? Is this reversable? If I go out and buy new tires, will the pulling stop? Please help! I would hate to go out and buy all new tires (when mine are fairly new), and spend hundreds of dollars doing so if it won't potentially fix the problem.
Any advice for a girl who knows nothing about cars/tires??
Thanks so much!
~Kari~