KennyWeeks

I picked up a 2010 LS460 L a few months ago and so far all has been well. But lately when rolling to a stop, or a light and lightly applying the brakes the car may pull right or left. It seems to be worse when on an incline or decline. If road is level it doesn't seem to occur as much and sometimes not at all.
Anyone have this type of problem before?
From my research it looks like it may be a worn bushing on a Strut rod?
Last shop I brought to came up empty?

Nospinzone

Welcome to Club Lexus and congrats on your new car!

When was the last time the car had a wheel alignment?

Protholl

Also have the wheel bearings been checked for play? They can start to fail but not make a lot of noise.

lexus13dan

Sounds like the road, A inperfeection in the road will do it everytime, Its not the alignment, Also check the wheel rotors

KennyWeeks

Think I'm good there, on level road - car strays straight
thanks

Protholl

Well there have been plenty of suggestions I'll throw in a couple more after the one I gave earlier:

Is the steering rack mounted solidly in the car? I just saw a video on TCCN where a reman rack had defective bushings from the get go
How about the tie rod ends... are they solid and not heavily worn?

7milesout

One other thought. I once had a car that did a similar thing. I didn't do anything about it. Some time later I "slapped" new tires on it and INSTANTLY it never did it again! The car then tracked perfectly in all conditions. I was amazed at how much influence the previous tires had.

So just wondering, what kind of condition are your tires in?

swfla

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It sounds like it's only when braking. LS rotors are known to warp easily when not broken in correctly. Especially OEM rotors. If it's the rotors/pads, replace with quality aftermarket. There are many threads about what brand to use. Search.

Marc780

This might be a phenomenon that used to be almost common with some brands of tires made and used during the 1990's. Mid 1990's I noticed such pulling happening on my 1983 Nissan Sentra. Back then I had the cheap-skate habit of occasionally replacing tires one at a time. And if the two front tires on a FWD car were different brands, sometimes the car would suddenly develop a minor, but slightly infuriating "pull" to one side or the other at speed. It was more pronounced on acceleration, but in general was always present, on any road surface, smooth or rough, at freeway speeds, or even low speed. After a couple days of driving like this, I tried rotating the front tires for the rear tires (which were both the exact same tires) and that fixed the pulling.
I worked for a large government fleet at the time, and I explained all this to my mechanic friend George. He just nodded knowingly, said "yep, that's called radial pull", and showed me a TSB from Goodyear about it. He just said I'd already done the proper fix by swapping tires, and reminded me to only change the front tires as a pair from now on.

I.D.K. if this might be happening to your car, since the Sentra, I've owned several cars, FWD and RWD too, and never had the pulling happen again - but if it did, rotating the tires is the first thing I'd try, (because it's cheap/free).