2019 VW Atlas SEL

Alignment has been off since I bought the car used. Dealership had to replace the steering rack for something unrelated and I told them to make sure the alignment is right. It was not. Maybe in their machine it is, but the wheel was not centered when driving straight. I looked at the live data in OBDEleven and there was an offset for mechanical center and straight line (see screenshots).

I adjusted the tie rods of each wheel equally so it would drive straight when steering wheel centered and ran the steering angle sensor basic setting in OBDEleven. I now notice that the dynamic lane assist (the alternate setting to stay in middle of lane) always veers to the right first and then centers. Also, the sensor offset is still there.

Is there something else I need to do to get rid of the offset? Something with ABS control unit?

EDIT: some additional live data

  • CompactFlaxEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, it sounds a bit like this happened. Corrections to the tie rods made the steering wheel straight but may have messed up the actual alignment and the computer is struggling a bit with that.

    • venusaur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      So adjusting the tie rods could have thrown off the camber and such and that’s causing the lane tracking to act funny?

      For context, that offset was there before I had adjusted the tie rods and it hasn’t changed. Trying to see how to get it to 0 degrees.