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Steering Slip - FIXED!

Allbones · 2014-10-30T01:51:11+00:00

Morning Guys, Apologies for the incessant tech questions 🤪 I'm just trying to get things sorted and they aren’t always the easiest things to search. Recently my steering has gone abit astray and I'm losing trust in it. It used to feel very go-kart like, would throw it into a turn and have 100% faith, but recently its developed a "slip". Basically, from straight, it has about an 1/8th of a turn play each in it before you can feel the weight in the steering, and as you feel the weight take up, you can feel it "catch and slip through" as it turns. The problem is most evident on long gentle corners, where speed is taking the weight off of the steering, you can turn the wheel and the car will begin to corner, then the slip will occur and it feel as though the car is drifting or skating (say I'm turning left, it will feel like its drifting to the right). It's a very spooky feel. Its also evident when driving dead straight, the wheel can be cocked off to the left or right, when before it used to be very true. The car has been looked at by a VW mechanic and they stated that all the couplers looked fine and that there was a full turn of adjustment on the grub screw, and that that should fix it, but the slip is still evident. Has anyone come across this before? And if so what was the fix? Here is a video showing how it catches and Slips/creaks. It's worth noting that this movement doesnt turn the wheels. The steering comes back into effect after this. Thank you as always, Allbones.

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vduboy Insano Dub Head

702 posts · joined Oct 2012 · 8 Dec 2014, 9:10 am

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Haha thanks for that..! Thats ok mate I'm sure we have all done something similar... 😢

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