Lexus dealer is trying to RIP ME OFF!!!!
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thats complete BS with the weight. my mom has a toyota sienna that pulls to the right all the time. even when its just me driving by myself. definatly its not weight because i weight about 300lbs and if its weight it should be towards the left. that dealer f'ed you over. go to another one if you can.
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The basic math on the bottom A arm alone says that there is a 1/4" differance when I sit in my car (at 130-140lbs...) VS the car being empty. That's somewhere between 0.5-1.0* off!? Because of that, IMO without further testing I think it's ignorant to atleast no entertain the notion that the suspension could have worn at an accellerated rate (maybe it was bad, etc) & is changing the alignment more than tolerable with the weight in the car.
You could be bumping the suspension out 1-2* just by sitting in the car. So go find a shop that will do an alignment with you sitting in the car, and give you an accurate beyond the high degree of play allowed in the factory alignment specifications.
Without that you're just spinning your wheels. You can do whatever you want, but the simple fact is that if you took them to court, the judge would ask you to do this too because any basic technition would have learned in their suspension theory classes that the suspenion geometry changes with weight. Especially mcphearson suspensions.
When the judge is told that they'd go back to asking you questions & you'd have nothing else relevant to say about it.
You gotta prove your arguements man & that's a good way to set one out in stone.
Get an alignment done with you sitting in the car & have them print the specs out for you... If it fixes it, good, if not - then you've got them by the *****.
Last edited by Pheonix; 08-05-07 at 09:54 AM.
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