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Originally Posted by jdavid2
I had my car in yesterday for an with the car drifting to the right with 300 mi on it. They tried swapping tires front to rear & then checked alignment, neither worked. They then said they tried swapping tires on the right side front to back and the drift is now gone. Make me a little nervous about an issue with the tires but it's all documented so if I have a problem later, they should cover it.
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Did you or anyone at the dealership check the tire pressures? Did the service tech adjust the tire pressures when they exchanged the front and rear tires?
For most of the X3 OEM tire configurations (except the 225/60R17 tires), the pressures should be higher for the rear tires. Most dealerships don't seem to pay any attention to that and have been known to typically deliver X3s with tire pressures all over the map. For the 245/50R18s, 35F and 38R work pretty well.
It's such an easy thing to check, and is often completely overlooked. A left/right difference could certainly create a steering bias.