Wandering steering, clunk when turning.

[dann2707]

I noticed yesterday when driving my 182 doesn't stay in a straight line, it's as if the steering wheel is constantly switching left and right and it's accentuated when going faster.

Also in the car park for asda I turned half full lock and noticed it clunked a few times when driving like this.

Any ideas guys? Thanks

 

[John Gordon]

I'm currently looking to replace m whole sub-frame because of the same fault.

Mine does my head in, its particularly bad under braking, follows the road left and right (weirdly worse with no engine braking ie: between gears shifting down for the corner)

Would be great to hear off others who have had and fixed this.

 

[MartinR]

I also have the same problem, got used to it now lol.

Changed -:

Front and rear shocks
Top mounts
Arb bushes
wishbones
4 new tyres.

Only things left to do on my refresh is rack bushes, inner tie rods and tie rod ends.

Hopefully that will diminish it.

 

[dann2707]

Is there not some kind of test I can do to find the problem as I don't really want to be replacing everything one by one.

Could it just be the tracking that is out? The clunking when turning seems to have gone which is weird.

 

[Naith]

When the above symptoms start on an RS megane the hub bearing has gone, have you looked at that?

My 172 clonks too but I know my front ARB bushes are peppered so I'll just powerflex them ASAP.

 

[The Fonze]

I have had a full front end refresh (track rod ends and inners, rack mounts, new polybushed arb mounts, new wishbones/ball joints) and the car steering still seems to have a mind of its own on even ground and tramline quite badly (the tracking has been done twice). Starting to think its just how these cars are as on a smooth track it feels great. Running federal 595 rsr tyres so I doubt these help tramlining, also got about 2 deg negative camber using the bolts.