my steering wheel on my 97 sunfire is turned to the right when the tires are stright. what should i do .. and the tires are at the right pressures but i dont know what i need or should do

Pull the wheel off and put it straight. Unless the car pulls to the left or right and then you need a alignment

I would definitely get an alignment before readjusting the steering wheel

and i think 2 rims on my car may be bent i dont know for sure or not but i think they are cuz i does pull to the side at time

+2 on getting an alignment.

align it, you may need ball joints or tie rods to correct it. cheap n easy to do


Fireboy153
Brady Fire Co. - Station 150
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alignment shop


you have some bent parts or some severely worn parts


doesnt sound very good at all...

has it been wrecked?

youll need to have nice tires on the front before they will attempt to align it

if it doesnt pull severely and if the car is not a nice clean low mileage car then it may not be worth the cost or be feasible or make much dollar sense to try and correct this

unless they will do it for cheap




-96 cavalier 2.2 auto 143k miles

damaged rack and pinion

bent or worn tie rod end

bent subframe and or cradle

bent control arm

bent or damaged strut and or strut mounting location(car body tub upper strut well/tunnel)

severely worn or damaged ball joint

ive seen all of the above over the years on customers cars at our shop

including bent control arms severely damaged

totally separated and apart ball joints

TRE's that have separated and come apart and or broken off

racks that have been damaged one side yanked out or pushed in internally due to hititng something too hard such as parking curbs etc, which also will bend control arms and control arm mounts and engine frame cradle

all these will cause alignment issues and steering wheel position to be off





-96 cavalier 2.2 auto 143k miles