[EM-0785]

Originally Posted by frankym

Hello,

I recently got a 4 wheel alignment on my ERA #575. Car drives smooth, no shimmies or problems tracking the car straight. However, I noticed that when pushing the performance and applying harder steering on curvy roads, the steering feels much less linear, like I'm tracking into a turn at say 40-50mph and when the normal instinct is to start increasing my turning of the wheel, the car doesn't turn without over steering the steering wheel. So as you transition from a straight stretch of road to a gradually increasing radius, you need to apply a disproportionate turn of the steering wheel. It feels like there is play in the wheel yet on straight driving, I can jiggle the steering wheel and the car noticebly moves left and right. I could see this performance in turns being an excessive play in the steering but it only displays this excessive play in the turns. Curious if anyone has experienced this and if there is an adjustment people have done to remedy this situation.

Thanks
Frank in Connecticut
ERA 575

Hi Frank,

If you know the settings the alignment shop used (ex: caster, camber, toe) it might help to include here for perspective. Just curious, where you indicate that when you jiggle the wheel and the car noticeably moves left or right, do you recall if on similar jiggle before did it move any more or less to the left and right? Am I correct to assume that you don't have a variable adjust steering/effort type system and that they didn't change the steering rack bushings?

Thanks, Brent