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Hi, my name is Mitch and I have uneven caster shims.
Among a few other things that needed dialing in, my VS tended to, uh, well, pull to one side, only just a little.
Hands off the wheel on a straight, level road it would not-so-much-at-first but then, sure enough, start to wander to the left a little.
I lived with this for a while as there were more pressing concerns to get dialed in, but eventually I wanted it gone.
The first alignment shop - a gray-haired guy who supposedly knew old VW's - did his best, but couldn't fix it. Again, it was pretty slight, but just enough to bug you when on a long, smooth, straight road.
The second shop did their best, too, but recommended I remove the passenger side shim and leave just the one on the driver side. When that was done, the problem finally disappeared.
So, there you go. I don't like to admit it, but I need assymmetrical shims just to drive down the road in a straight line.
I've often wondered how a pan could be sliced and diced, and then welded back together again to the necessary tolerances in a shop that used to crank out whole cars in the time it takes Marty Grzlkhlkjhlkjhwicz to have seat cushions custom upholstered.
And there's one other dark secret here. My steering wheel isn't quite straight ahead as I cruise down the road. The easy fix is to unbolt it, rotate it one spline, and then put it back on (which I will do some day when I get around to buying the giant socket you need to do that).
But I have read an article about adjusting our beloved steering boxes by a guy who has spent 30 years of his life specializing in rebuilding VW steering boxes, and he says that this is a symptom of a box that needs to be rebuilt or was not rebuilt properly the last time around.
I'm wondering if that's not related to a car that won't follow the straight and narrow.
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