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Car pulling to right - Final solution

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Hi, I am posting this in the hope it may help another member having the same trouble.

During December my car went into the dealers to have a new ABS unit fitted, upon return, unfortunately it was found that after a weekend's worth of motorway driving with both wife and baby daughter on board that the o/s front brake had been incorrectly connected causing this to lock up when the ABS was fired. Obviously the implications of this dont bare thinking about but luckily the ABS wasnt needed during these journeys and the fault was only discovered by myself on my works car park on monday morning during the snow we had.

The dealer then refitted the unit correctly this time.

Since then the car developed a pronounced pull to the o/s, upon returning to the dealers I was told it wasnt anything to do with the work carried out and was probably a tracking issue.

Had car 4 wheel aligned all was spot on, returned to the dealer who also had this checked and found the same. Checked car over and couldnt find what was causing the problem on two occasions, again I was told nothing they had touched could have caused the problem.

This week the car was returned to dealers for 3 days, got the car back today and problem has been fixed.

Apparently the steering is computer controlled and somehow the values have been changed by a few degrees to give more assistance on one side, thus the car thinking it was pulling to the left was compensating to the right. All had been fine for the 40000 miles prior to the ABS job.

Needless to say the dealer couldn't explain how this had happened and in fact seemed oblivious that you could actually alter these values (Skoda UK suggestion perhaps).

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