well, the good news is i got my car back yesterday and the steering wheel alignment is fixed.
but i should explain this. Think of a bicycle, where the handle bars are not perfectly straight relative to the front wheels. What do you do? Hold the front wheel between your knees and twist the handle bars to go straight ahead.
That's essentially what was wrong with the steering wheel apparently.
Now, therefore, if I want to drive perfectly straight, the steering wheel is at the perfect 12 o'clock position.
Good.
But now the bad news: NOW the car pulls to the left almost as though it had a flat tire!! So I took the car BACK to BMW of SD again this morning, and this time SA goes for a drive with me.
Of course, the roads he happens to test it on help offset the effect, so I pointed out that almost any steering corrections he makes are always to the right, and NEVER to the left. Clearly, the car is biased to the left.
He says they'll look at it again, but tried to argue that if it's within spec, then the way it's driving is normal.
So I get a Z4 3.0si loaner car -- WOW VERY IMPRESSED BTW!! -- and lo and behold, NO pulling to the left whatever. I knew I wasn't nuts.
