sounds like me.. i got so angry i told my teacher in school this is it! im aligning my car on the machine "he wouldnt let me" got her done and shes a beauty now lol =]
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04-02-2009
sounds like me.. i got so angry i told my teacher in school this is it! im aligning my car on the machine "he wouldnt let me" got her done and shes a beauty now lol =]
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04-02-2009
I'm calling the alignment shop tomorrow to see if i can get in right after work at 5:30 like usual. i got my car re-aligned my car last thursday and drove to indy that weekend. its better but it still sways. this is weird. the cars actual handling is getting a little better though. it feels like it doesnt sway as much on turns. so after 2 alignments in 2 weeks its improved everytime but i still cant keep my car straight for more than 2 seconds at highway speeds.
06-07-2009
I found this while doing a search for something else, but I think I can help. My vote is for ball joints. The guys doing alignments are used to newer cars and seldom check for balljoint wear unless they can't align the car at all.
Bad joints give the wandering sensation, and they also will cause tire wear at the very inside edge of the tire, that's difficult to see unless you turn the steering wheel a lot to examine the tires.
I've had to do the ball joints on two of my cars recently for just these symptoms.
Just my opinion, but it's fairly easy and inexpensive to remove the lower control arms and have a machine shop remove the big rivets holding in the balljoints, vs. doing it yourself. I was charged $12 per arm for removing the rivets, which is a lot let hassle that doing the drilling yourself.
01-05-2010
Did you ever resolve your instability problem? I too have the same thing going on in my 2003 GP.Originally Posted by 04CompG
Thanks!
01-06-2010
The shop that was giving me alighnments didn't know what they were doing. Their machine was reading totally different numbers than the tire shop that was across the street from them. I also needed rear camber bolts put in because my car was suffering "bump steer" because the car would shift to the side when it hit a big enough bump. Also my ball joints were bad, which actually got replaced under warranty just 2 weeks ago.
So my issue was a combination of 3 things:
-got a bad alignment
- needed rear camber bolts
- ball joints were bad
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