Mercedes pulling problems

[Tony]

You have:

 

* A pull to the left

* An off-centre steering position

* A slow steering return after cornering

* Probably gone from pillar to post trying to resolve these issues

 

Historically the majority of owners experience nothing more than trouble free driving from their pride and joy but there is an underlying issue with some cars pulling to one side.

I can assure you this is 100% curable so what’s wrong?

 

The Mercedes chassis encompasses particular traits that are unique to this marque, namely an aggressive front Castor angle and a sedate Camber position, this is done for good reason but there’s a consequence.

 

The consequence is these huge forces need to be countered more or less symmetrically between the front wheels, small variants between the wheels will permit a pull, which is aggravated by the road crown.

 

In order to dissolve the complaint the Camber and Castor positions need to be “staggered†although a delicate touch is required to ensure the stagger does not generate tyre wear or interfere with the suspensions design harmony, this delicate touch needs unique analysis of each individual chassis condition, requiring the same insight tuning the chassis.

 

Mercedes knew their chassis needed “tuning†so by design adjusters where fitted allowing future tuning, unfortunately after year 2000 the adjusters where no longer pre-installed meaning the owner now needs to have them fitted to compensate for the particular angle generating the complaint.

 

Well it all reads depressing but it’s not. Installing the corrective adjusters is simplistic assuming the correct angles are addressed.

Wheels-inmotion stops the pull, simple as that.