Hi Guys,

I tink I may have an issue with the S but I am too dumb to figure out what it might be.

The car seems to hunt around a little bit in the lane that I'm driving in. It is especially noticeable when cornering under a higher load, the car just plain does not feel planted at all. I will be driving along in a straight line and then have to make a correction out of nowhere. The car tracks stright 95% of the time but then I'll have to correct on a butter smooth road surface without any driver input.

So far, my tire pressure is equal all around
Checked all four wheels tonight for wheel bearing wobble and cannot detect anything

I haven't had an alignment done on the car in a long time. Do you think an alignment would fix me up? The car did not use to feel like this last summer and I didn't drive her in the winter at all.

I switched over to my autox tires last night expecting the wobble/hunting to dissapate as I was thinking the snow tires I had mounted were squirmy. Not the case, and I know my autox tires aren't squirmy on the road.

Maybe a bushing has too much wear and needs to be replaced, my S has 76KM on it so we are jsut broken in...thoughts?

 

Get the alignment first -- front toe out can make the car unstable in the manner you described. And if it's a good alignment shop, ask them to check for any wear on suspension items.

 

I suggest you double check the rear wheel bearings. I had a similar issue previously. However, it kept getting worse and worse. Ultimately I had to replace not just the bearing, but the hub assembly and the stubby shaft off the axle too. Got expensive!

 

+1

 

Agreed on the alignment, made a huge difference in the handling on my car. I suggest taking it to Bert's on the west end, they have quite a bit of experience dealing with s2000's.

 

And since you autox, here's my suggestions for an alignment that works on the street and is OK for chasing cones:

Front camber: Max negative camber possible
Front Caster: Max possible without losing any front camber
Front Toe: 0 degrees, err on the side of toe out
Rear Camber -2.0 degrees
Rear Toe -0.20 degrees (toe in)

 

Perfect, thanks for all the help guys, I'll give Berts a shout tomorrow and see if I can get in there. Murray I am about to install the Sane sway bar would that change any of your suggestions on alignment specs?

 

I'd keep Murray's specs even with the Saner bar. I run something similar to what Murray runs for alignment (except i have zero rear toe... I like my rear tires haha).

 

Keep those specs -- no matter what sway bar or sway bar setting you run.

That little bit of rear toe in doesn't increase the tire wear in any way I can detect. However, it does make the car track much better on the highway -- even if you dial in a bit of front toe-out.

 

My prognosis, DRIVER.