For 27 years my father trusted the wheel alighnment guy when he said the steering can not be centered on our '71. If slowly drifted to 1 'o clock within a few years after my father bought it. Then in 1999 I got the car and moved from South Africa to New Zealand. When I got the wheel alighnment done in New Zealand (where the 144 was never sold new and people do not know it at all, especially with cheap Japanese imports), it came back centered. He tells me alighnment shops are just too lazy to do it, modern cars are apparently much easier to center. So take the car back and have it done properly.