Steering wheel moves when I hit bumps.
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Steering wheel moves when I hit bumps.
I have noticed this when I got the car used about 2 years ago. Whenever I hit bumps or go over train tracks, the steering wheel wiggles a lot , left to right, and so on. But over the years, it has gotten worse. I have about 60k on the car. Could it be suspension? A lot of people are telling me it is. I'm not really sure. Any ideas? Also,, when cruising down the road,, the car seems to wander side to side. It drives me crazy.
Justin 2000 Trans Am A4
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Your alignment will have a great affect on that. My car is lowered and when I got it aligned I had the shop align it to specs that I wanted. I can't remember what my specs were off hand (been awhile) but the way my caster/camber is setup makes my car want to follow grooves in the road. I don't mind a bit, as I like a solid steering feel. Long story short, get your car aligned back to stock specs.....it'll stop wandering.
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I have the same problem and just paid $65 for an alignment at Sears and the car still pulls left or right when I hit a bump. This is starting to drive me crazy I dont know what to do the tech at Sears said everything in the front end looked good.
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I've had an alignment done. Problem is still there. I'll go pick up some lower tierod ends ($50) and see if that works. The wandering of the car I'm not that worried about when i hit grooves in the road. It is more the movement of the wheel when hitting bumps.
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Moving side to side when hitting bumps is also a sign of bad shocks. If you have bad shocks, as I do, they will not have the correct stiffness and rebound to allow your car to handle well. One side may lower faster than the other or vise versa causing your car to lean and turn.
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Bringing this one back from the dead. I did a search and this op has a problem similar to mine. My car wanders when the road is uneven as in if the road slopes to the right the car pulls to the right slopes to the left car wants to track left. The steering is still tight no slack in the steering wheel. Just the problem with wandering with the slope in the road. I've heard about wide tires contributing to this but there are cars and suv's out there with 275's and wider in the front that don't have this problem. Suburbans, vettes etc. What do you guys think? Is this the right section to post this in?