09/03/2026
If your vehicle pulls to one side on a straight, level road, that is worth getting looked at rather than getting used to.
We say level and straight deliberately, because most roads are neither. Pavement is built with a slight crown so water runs off, and that crown will nudge almost any vehicle gently toward the shoulder. That is the road, not the car. What matters is a pull you have to actively correct on a stretch you know is flat.
Here is why it is worth fixing rather than tolerating.
A vehicle that is out of alignment is dragging its tires sideways a little with every rotation. Not enough to feel as drag, but enough to scrub rubber off. That is why bad alignment shows up as tire wear long before it shows up as a handling complaint, and it is why a set of tires that should last four years sometimes does not make it through two.
It also means you are holding the wheel against the vehicle constantly. On a run out to Longview or down 69 you feel that as fatigue, and most people never connect the two.
And it hides other things. A worn suspension part will often show up first as an alignment that will not hold. If we set one and it drifts back out, that tells us something is loose underneath, and that is the more useful finding.
The Rose Stadium doubleheader is tonight, so Fair Park Drive is going to be busy from about five o'clock on.
1011 W Front St, Tyler. Call (903) 593-6687.
