MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: phil bert on May 11, 2013, 04:18:16 pm
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well last weekend had to ditch my coilovers due to being dead gone back to standard set up for time being , had to take the hubs off and everything pig off a bloody job
since then i had noticed that it wanted to go to the right :confused: , never noticed it before
took car to garage had the tracking done today yet its still going to the right not sure if i missing something , anybody had sim problem ?
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What are the LCA's like?
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What are the LCA's like
well they look ok to me and the garage never said anything about them
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I assume you have the correct tyre pressures set?
If so I would check all the bushes and balls for play and if there fine go back to the garage for another wheel alignment as it should have sorted the handling out if done correctly with no worn out suspension components.
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will check the tyre pressures , not to sure how much if it would effect but the front tires are 215 40 18 and the rears are 215 35 18 ?
falling that will take back to garage
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It could just be that the wheel alinment has not been done properly.
I had a full 4 wheel alinment done last year and the steering when was off center with the car pulling to the left as soon as I left the garage, I took the car back to them 3 times and they still couldn't get it right. The mechanic basically told me to F off when I took the car back after the 3rd attempt.
I then got a £20 alinment done at a local garage and that fixed the problem.
It sickens me that some garages are charging over £100 to make a car worse then when it arrived.
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yeah its really strange has the handling does seem alittle better but if i take my hands off steering wheel the car deff going to the right still , will take back and see what the say about it if i dont get anyjoy will take to another garage , will look into on here for people that rate
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It's actually illegal to run smaller tyres on the rear of a vehicle... It shouldn't make any difference to the car pulling to one side.
I would definitely get the wheels swapped front to back.
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It's actually illegal to run smaller tyres on the rear of a vehicle... It shouldn't make any difference to the car pulling to one side.
I would definitely get the wheels swapped front to back.
never knew that will change over :happy2:
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It's actually illegal to run smaller tyres on the rear of a vehicle... It shouldn't make any difference to the car pulling to one side.
I would definitely get the wheels swapped front to back.
Is it? I thought you just had to run the same size on each axle?
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Has to be the same size on each axle or same rolling radius on each axle and the rear rolling radius must not be less than the front.
Not sure why, but that was always how I was trained when I used to be a tyre fitter.
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It's actually illegal to run smaller tyres on the rear of a vehicle... It shouldn't make any difference to the car pulling to one side.
I would definitely get the wheels swapped front to back.
Not quite true as the audi rs3 has bigger tyres on the front and slightly narrow ones on the back
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It's actually illegal to run smaller tyres on the rear of a vehicle... It shouldn't make any difference to the car pulling to one side.
I would definitely get the wheels swapped front to back.
Not quite true as the audi rs3 has bigger tyres on the front and slightly narrow ones on the back
The width of the tyre does not change its rolling raduis