Steering issues after lower control arm replacement
Hey everyone -
So I recently installed new Meyle control arms on the front of my 02S. I accidentally snapped the ball joint bolt on one of them and had to press it out... not fun. Anyway - I eventually got a new one on there and all bolted up. I replaced them to solve an annoying vibration issue, which is now gone! However, now the car pulls to the left at highway speeds and when I hit any sort of rough patch in a road, the steering wheel veers off in either direction. Is this: A - An alignment issue? I just did the fronts because I was under the impression that it would not require an alignment. B - Something I messed up when I took the wheel carrier/knuckle off to press out the broken bolt? C- Something else all together? Car has 86k on the clock - new struts, tie rods (in/out), track arms, sway bar bushing, sway drop links, strut mounts all installed in past 500 miles. |
Have you had the front tracking/ alignment done? If not then it will be required. Some Meyle arms were found to be 6mm shorter than oem which makes this even more necessary. Did you tighten up the bolts that secure the bushings to the car/trailing arm once it was beck on thr ground and settled?
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Step 1 is to have the car professionally aligned.
Sometimes, no matter how careful you are, the alignment gets tweaked when changing out suspension components. The shop that does the alignment can also do a quick check to make sure that everything else is back together the way its supposed to be. |
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I've got 3 Meyle arms bought at different times and two oem Porsche arms, I'll check them.
Edit: I checked, all the same length. |
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