Car pulls right when driving, pulls left when braking?

Question

I just had an alignment done but the car is pulling to where I have to have the steering wheel ****** to drive strait. When I brake it pulls the opposite direction. Any idea what could cause this?

Answer 1

Dodge man is pretty close on this one,I would say you have a stuck rt. front caliper. It is probably dragging just enough to cause the front to pull to the right until you brake,then it is not moving enough to brake as well as the left one. Drive it a couple of miles without hitting the brakes much then get out and see if one wheel is warmer than the other. A stuck caliper usually generates a noticibly greater amount of heat at the wheel.

Answer 2

sounds like an alignment to me.  

Answer 3

You could have a brake problems, If the car is pulling while your regularly driving your alignment is out , or u could be low on air pressure. air pressure in your tires can cause it to pull also ,but would have to be significantly low to do so , check brakes also ,one brake may be working while another isnt, or the pads on the opposite side which is not pulling are not working. Check brake fluid. check each front left and right inner wheel for leaking brake fluid. you could have a blown brake pump . Whoever done your alignment didnt align your steering wheel up .

Answer 4

steering and spell check are doing the same thing.just tires warranty's their work for quite a while.i don't know where you got work done but take it back and have them Honor their customer.don't let them pull your $$$$ out of your pocket for their shod work

Answer 5

It sounds like a brake problem.. and as someone else said, it could simply be air in the lines or a jammed caliper.

When they did the alignment something may have been knocked (unlikely) or since the alignment you are just noticing it more.

Get someone to check your brakes...think of it like this: If you right caliper is locked on a little bit then when you are driving it is braking a little bit...pulling you right, but when you brake, the jammed (right) one stays where it is and the left works properly...pulling you to the left.

If it isnt the brakes then the other guy is right...your front end has issues!

Good Luck!

Melodie

Answer 6

Does your car shake when you brake?  If so than your rotors are warped and you should get new ones.  You can find them real cheap on eBay and they're easy to swap out.

Answer 7

It wasn't aligned properly for one thing and you have a bad front brake caliper causing it to pull the other way when you hit the brakes, take it back to whoever aligned it and tell them it's not right and get that brake caliper fixed.

Answer 8

hope that it's only an alignment problem.  Other than that it could be struts arms. it could be a number of things.  would help if I knew the type and the transmission type

Answer 9

you may have air in th lines or the calipers may be sticking on it,getting an alignment wont cure that problem,you might want to have them recheck the alignment though,just to make sure they got it strait when they aligned it,id also check the calipers to see if theres one was sticking ,that could be causing the pulling when your breaking,good luck with it.

Answer 10

check your tire pressure first.

you could have an alignment issue.  Did you go over something big?  Hit the curve, go over a big pot hole, etc?

The car pulls to the right which means there is likely something up with that front end indeed.  Like another person said, hopefully it is just the alignment.  When you brake, the reason it pulls to the left is because weight is shifting differently than when you are accelerating.  I would get the right side checked out first.

Answer 11

Your front end is messed up I have the same problem with my car, when I drive I don't take my hand off the wheel cause it pulls to the left so my best advice is to get it fixed which will be expensive or get a new car.