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Steering drift

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Old Apr 3, 2012 | 09:50 PM
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Default Steering drift

Does everyones jeep drift right? Hah my jeep is always wanting to go slightly to the right, nothing crazy, but it will wander that way. I put 265/70/17's on it up from the stock 225/75/16's it came with, would that have affected anything on my front end?
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Old Apr 4, 2012 | 02:35 AM
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I have no way to back this up but I've heard in the past that most, if not all, vehicles will drift slightly right. Point being to steer you away from oncoming traffic should you fall asleep or whatever. I think mine will drift super slightly to the right as well and it only has 1500 mi on it
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Old Apr 4, 2012 | 03:41 AM
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Roads around here have a crown and slope from the center line towards the shoulder hence causing a vehicle to pull to the right.
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Old Apr 4, 2012 | 05:03 AM
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I knew about the crown in the road thing, it just seems like a bit excessive to me (the pulling right that is) didn't know about it being designed into the cars nowadays that's nifty hah just wanted to make sure I'm not chewing up the brand new tires I put on it if the alignment got screwed with from the bigger tires. Thanks!
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Old Apr 5, 2012 | 11:00 AM
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Welcome to driving a jeep. They wander all over the road all the time
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