Hi guys, recently bought a 2002 s2k GT, 98K on clock, rear drop link was found sheared and replaced so was taking it easy until work was carried out by main dealer honda, got it back yesterday so decided to open her up a bit and under normal braking from high speed car was squirming and feeling unstable, car also feels like its pulling all over road when on poor B road surface, tracking into grooves and dips. Honda checked tracking and said all ok but front passenger wheel scrubbing bare on outer edge of tyre and car feels like its pulling to left sometimes then others its running true and straight? Any ideas whats going on? A friend has told me that these are just skittish and naturally follow road camber but surely tyre shouldnt be wearing? Im thinking possible suspension parts need replacing? Thanks for any help.

 

I'm thinking loose subframe bolts. There are 6 subframe bolts front, 6 rear, that connect the subframe to the car. If these get loose, which is not uncommon, the subframes can move around as you drive. So load from cornering, breaking, etc will cause your geometry (alignment) settings to jump all over the place.

So even though dealer may have gotten the static geometry settings spot on, the dynamic geometry can still be all over the place.

Its very easy to confirm and correct this. You need to get the car off the ground enough to get underneath safely, a torque wrench and some sockets, and a long shaft philips screwdriver or other similar shafted tool.

There is a diy on here (search for subframe alignment). Basically there are alignment holes in the subframe that line up with holes in the body. If you stick the screwdriver shaft into the subframe hole, shaft should go straight through both holes. If not, loosen all 6 bolts, use shaft to align holes, tighten bolts. Torque to spec.

If its already aligned, just torque the bolts to spec. If the bolts were loose, or if alignment was off, they need to do the alignment again. I would fight to have it done free since they missed that subframe(s) weren't right.

 

Excellent thank you that does sound like exactly whats happening after you have explained it, the car is so rare around my location they have already admitted dealing with very few and actually have not seen one for years in the workshop so its entirely possible they have missed this, i will try and speak to the performance technician who wasnt in when car went for checks as he may have a bit more insight into this and print your response off for him to follow. Thank you.