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The kind of folks I work with...



You still float right, the crown is in the middle. Two lanes on the left, that would be oncoming traffic, then crown, then the left and right lanes.
 
Lars, it's the US, not Germany.

Lars Bruchmann <pilotlars@yahoo.com> wrote:
in that case, on coming traffic would pull into the
oncomming lane. how do you know which lane you are
on?? you let the wheel go, and either you float left
or right??? 
--- Tonee Northam 
wrote:

> Up here they put the crown on the far left so both
> the left and right lanes slope to the right.
> 
> Lars Bruchmann 
wrote:the crown
> is simply the angle of the lane. if you
> drive in the left lane, the crown is to the left. so
> the car would tend to go left. it's just gravity. 
> but i have heard that front drive cars are designed
> so
> that if the wheels spin, the car will slide to the
> right, so as not to go into oncomming traffic. this
> could also simply be from the crown on the road. 
> --- Chris wrote:
> 
> > It seems to me that somewhere I read that the
> > suspension is supposedly 
> > designed to take into account the crown of roads,
> > however, it was not to 
> > make the car turn to the right but to keep you
> going
> > straight and avoid 
> > irregular tire wear. The amount is minuscule and
> > would not cause the car 
> > to pull noticeably to the right. I may have seen
> it
> > in the tire guy column 
> > in EC mag. (Or a suspension article in EC or GRM
> > mag.)
> > 
> > About noticeably pulling to the right being a
> > feature? Did this guy work 
> > for Microsoft?
> > 
> > Why is this guy driving business away by
> essentially
> > saying "There is 
> > nothing wrong with your car." It most likely an
> > alignment problem which 
> > would typically be non-warranty so the service
> could
> > have been performed at 
> > the shop's regular rate. If it was a mechanical
> > defect under warranty then 
> > the shop would at least get the warranty rate.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > At 04:58 PM 11/26/2004 -0800, Rob Calderwood
> wrote:
> > >I heard that same pull to right BS from a sales
> > person years ago. It was 
> > >in regards to a used Subaru.
> > >
> > >----- Original Message ----- From: "David Utley"
> > 
> > >To: 
> > >Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:10 PM
> > >Subject: O/T: The kind of folks I work with...
> > >
> > >
> > >>Okay, this was too stupid not to share and since
> > the list is slow...
> > >>
> > >>I just heard a story about one of the service
> > writers here, we have four 
> > >>and -none- of them are mechanical at all... 
> > First, a little background 
> > >>on this fella. He has been with the company at
> > least 12 to 13 
> > >>years. First, he was a car salesman. Next, he
> > was a finance 
> > >>manager. Then he was new car manager over Kia. 
> > NOW, he is a service 
> > >>writer (he is too good an ass-kisser to be
> fired,
> > I s'pose). Okay, he 
> > >>was consoling a customer about their car pulling
> > to the right... He 
> > >>replied, " Oh, that is a feature of VWs, that's
> > deliberate. They do that 
> > >>so that if you fall asleep, it will go off the
> > road instead of into 
> > >>traffic..." Okay, with that logic, then the
> > sludging problems with the 
> > >>1.8Ts in the Passat is actually a feature that
> > stops the car from 
> > >>over-revving, right? (banging head)...
> > >>
> > >>Okay, another story... One of the other service
> > writers wrote a ticket 
> > >>with the line description as follows: 'Customer
> > states there is a noise 
> > >>from the harmonic balancer, check radio and
> > replace as 
> > >>necessary..." Like I said, they are not
> > mechanical...
> > >>
> > >>Have a good day today...
> > >>
> > >>David <--- Doing time in the stupid house, yo...
> > >>
> > >>Chrome may make it bling, but it don't make the
> > engine sing...
> > >>
> > >>
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Elmhurst, IL.
mk3 Corrado VR6 (Baby) 
mk4 Angry Bunny GLX VR6 (Sleeper) 
pv4 Plymouth Voyager SE (Wife's Winter Driver) 
b3 Passat GLX VR6 (Now Jarrett's Newer B3) 
 
(Honda, The Other White Meat)