New tires & rims pull to the right

Actually, just noticed today that the Michelin X-ICE snow tires on my
MPV are unidirectional as well...

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Michelin&tireModel=X-Ice

 

Again,not much "directionality".(a deep Vee tread)
(compared to common sport directional tire treads)

For a snow tire,you really can't go "directional" like regular sport
tires(like Yoko ES100),you'd lose the snow traction ability.

 

I didn't realize there could be varying degrees of "directionality"...
is it possible to be "only a little bit directional"? Is that like
being "slightly pregnant"?

 

by that I mean the degree of slant of the grooving.If you examine the ES100
tread,the "directional" grooves wrap much more around the tire in the plane
of the tire,a "deeper Vee".
your tire is much more "cross tread" than a typical directional tread tire.
Thus you get more tire noise on dry pavement.

I doubt you'd see much difference if your tire was mounted the "wrong way".

 

I'm looking at assorted different pictures of various directional tires.
Few of their tread patterns are as "exaggerated" as those on the ES100s.

Fact is, the manufacturer considers the design "directional" and the
tires are accordingly marked with directional arrows. Thus they ARE, in
fact, directional tires, whether or not Jim Yanik considers them to be so.

 

Maybe the shop used poor lifting practices and bend a suspension arm
slightly.