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Does Anyone Elses Torque Steer?
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:38 am
by JWC
It seems coming out of a corner under harsh acceleration, mine seems to overcome the castor angle. And it seems to want to go left very slightly. Which is consistent with torque steerm but also could be perhaps 1) different tyre pressures, or 2) road camber.
Happy Driving.
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:34 am
by polo2k
different driveshaft weights too (the gti has 1 hollow drive shaft to over come this.
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:39 am
by JWC
Well all of them should be the same, even my old 1 litre mk3 have driveshafts designed to overcome it. No car is symetrical I suppose, and the diffs always prefer one wheel.
I just didn't think that mine had enough torque for it to be evident. Usually not a problem on sub 150Hp cars. But that said, I have had a new steering column, because of a worn bush. That made the castor effect less.
Thye effect is only slight anyway. Not like my old car that would decide itself where to go under braking! (tyres probably too wide).
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:29 am
by daffy
if it's gonna pull to one side due to different tyre pressures, left and right have to have like 700000000 psi differnce
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:35 am
by JWC
I had a hire car pull left once, and all it needed was about 8 PSI in the left tyre. (Which is pretty huge I suppose).
I couldn't see the coolant, and the oil was over the top mark. So all in all it was heading for total disaster.