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Pulling to the left and compensated by steering to the right is Lambert’s roundabout scenario, it will wear the outer tyre on the outside edge.
There are a number of things cause a vehicle to steer off to one side, all of them appear to have already been mentioned and I suspect the same as others something is bent on one of the front wheels, possibly after an impact on the near side.
One other thought if the wrong springs were put on the front and it has an uneven ride height (lean) that might cause the same problem.
If something is bent, it most likely happened with a previous owner and might have been straightened and the tracking adjusted so it appears to be ok on a normal alignment jig.
If it’s only slightly pulling it might be that you just live with it and do tyre rotation as the cost of finding/fixing might be more than the tyre wear cost.
What’s it like under medium to heavy braking or acceleration,is the pulling to the left significantly worse?
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