Meg RS250 handling issue

Not a clio, as i sold my 172 in favour of the Meg 250.

All been well until now...

So a long story short, my brembos jammed on and cooked a caliper and damaged the rubber on the ball joints.

I've replaced the wishbone, the top and bottom ball joints and abs cable with pattern parts.
The calipers have been refurbished and refitted with new discs and pads.

New genuine renault track rod arm fitted.

Brakes all bleed profesionally at the abs pump, so dramas there.

Tracking was all done yesterday at my local F1 auto centre.

The problems:

- the handling isnt quite right. Under acceleration it pulls to the left, and when you take your foot off the accelerator it pulls back to the right. Its not a big pull, but noticeable.

- the traction control is now overly sensitive, but only when turning left. Any hard turn left and the TC kicks in instantly, but not when turning hard right.

Before I start firing the parts cannon at it, is this likely down to the pattern parts?

I suspect I'll end up buying all genuine renault stuff and do it all again, but thought I'd get the thoughts of the collective first

Double cleck everything for play/make sure wishbone bolts torqued to spec.

If all good, id get the geo checked again. Tc comes on when geo is out.

The wishbone that you’ve fitted, did you measure it up to see if it’s exactly the same as the OE one?
My mums old MR2 had the same issue (pulling left on acceleration and darting right when you let off) because it had one Non gen suspension arm and one genuine.

Yeah, i had the old one off and laid one on top of the other just to make sure.

I'll double check everything as it does fit the symptoms of a loose wishbone

Anti rotation links, I had similar on my 197, had no play at all in mine, swapped them, problem solved!

Turns out there's a metal adapter bush in the hub where the track rod end goes in.

It'd got stuck on the old trackrod that I'd binned without knowing what it was.

All fixed now!

Yeah that'll do it!

Good job it hasn't knackered the hub where the insert goes 😬

Also surpried the alignment place didn't spot it moving around.

Common one that, Nice easy fix. Take it back for geo now its done, itll prob be miles out.

Brigsy said:

Common one that, Nice easy fix. Take it back for geo now its done, itll prob be miles out.

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15° out.

Geo done, but still getting traction control kicking in 🙄

Just wondering if the pattern abs sensor I fitted is not so good.
Got a new genuine renault one, so will fit that and see what's what

Check wheel speeds on diagnostic to see whats going on. Ive only ever had tc issues with geo out.

Any pics of the printout for the geo? A lot of places are s**t at doing it sadly, might be worth getting it checked elsewhere.

Changed the abs sensor for the OEM renault parts and all seems to be ok now.

Current geo:

Good to hear abs sensor sorted it.

Toe is OK as neutral, but would be better set at -0°10 overall ( -0°05' each side ), it will turn in sharper.

Brigsy said:

Good to hear abs sensor sorted it.

Toe is OK as neutral, but would be better set at -0°10 overall ( -0°05' each side ), it will turn in sharper.

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Yeah 10 mins out is factory spec I think.

Cheers guys, really appreciate the help 😁