Hi,

For a long time I have noticed something kind of odd, which now I want to get rid of. The steering wheel has to be turned slightly to the left side for the car to go straight. When I have the wheel set up to be at center, the car will drift to the right such that it can easily change a lane at freeway speeds. Oddly, the way that the Mercedes star is pointed in the wheel center, is such that when it is pointing straight up and down, the car will track perfectly straight.
I have had the car alligned twice, the last time being yeserday. It needed new control arms and a left tie rod, which I put on before this last alignment, with hopes that that was the problem. Also the steering wheel slop, which used to be over an inch of play is completely gone. The car now rides great, but the steering wheel is still off.

I would assume that the wheel is attached on some sort of a splined shaft, and so if I was to disconnect the wheel, and then move it one spline to the right, it should straighten out. Is thispossible? How would i do it? If that gets fixed, then my mercedes star on the wheel will be crooked with respect to the road -- how do I fix that?

Any help on this would be really great.
Thanks

JMH

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