Is you're steering wheel straight and true?
07-11-2006 | 06:22 PM
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Is you're steering wheel straight and true?
After driving my car for about a little more than a week now I noticed that the steering wheel is not perfectly centered when I'm going in a straight line. It is off by a few degrees to the right or at about the 1 minute position on a clock. Is this normal? Does it happen because for the majority my trips, I'm making right hand turns so it wears the tires in that way?
07-11-2006 | 07:20 PM
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Man I've got too much on my list for the dealer to do now. I have to get the front brake squeal fixed, the front lower lip spoiler reattached, the steering fixed, and a minor rattle/buzzing I'm getting from the lower passenger-side door. Ugh.
07-11-2006 | 07:52 PM
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if the wheel is off it is the alignment. if the alignment was good but the sterring wheel was not indexed to it you would get a traction control fault light on th edash. the car thinks the vehicle is constantly slipping because of the difference between the angle sensor in the steeringwheel and the sensors in the front wheels
07-11-2006 | 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by zoom44
if the wheel is off it is the alignment. if the alignment was good but the sterring wheel was not indexed to it you would get a traction control fault light on th edash. the car thinks the vehicle is constantly slipping because of the difference between the angle sensor in the steeringwheel and the sensors in the front wheels
Just a thought..
07-11-2006 | 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by zoom44
if the wheel is off it is the alignment. if the alignment was good but the sterring wheel was not indexed to it you would get a traction control fault light on th edash. the car thinks the vehicle is constantly slipping because of the difference between the angle sensor in the steeringwheel and the sensors in the front wheels
My God have I commited a sin and corrected ZOOM ?
07-11-2006 | 08:02 PM
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no of course not ive been corrected like 3 times this week. i should have added that clarification.
no if the steering wheel is not indexed you will get the light on the dash- provided you have the TCS and DSC
no if the steering wheel is not indexed you will get the light on the dash- provided you have the TCS and DSC
07-11-2006 | 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by zoom44
no of course not ive been corrected like 3 times this week. i should have added that clarification.
no if the steering wheel is not indexed you will get the light on the dash- provided you have the TCS and DSC
no if the steering wheel is not indexed you will get the light on the dash- provided you have the TCS and DSC
07-12-2006 | 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Boris and Natasha
As a tech in the past, roads have a 6 degree crown to roll water off of them.Drive in the left hand lane to bend ya steering to the right. Most alignment problems come from ppl rolling into the driveway to fast lol tends to offset the wheel. Let me guess you pull into the driveway to the left?
07-12-2006 | 10:05 AM
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07-12-2006 | 10:45 AM
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Hmm. I don't know. I've never really asked my steering wheel those sorts of questions.
I try to keep it simple and professional:
"Why do you insist on tramlining through the ruts on the road?"
"Why is it that I can adjust your tilt, but not your reach?"
"Must you always feel so lazy and tired at low speed corners?"
I try to keep it simple and professional:
"Why do you insist on tramlining through the ruts on the road?"
"Why is it that I can adjust your tilt, but not your reach?"
"Must you always feel so lazy and tired at low speed corners?"
07-12-2006 | 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by dmc27
^ Thanks; ticks me off, too.
Please tell me you don't have a big dip/bump at the end of your driveway.
Please tell me you don't have a big dip/bump at the end of your driveway.