Could it also be defined as turning the car with the throttle?

 

That has more to do with balance (lift off throttle = more weight on the front wheels = less grip from the rears = loose backend or oversteer; squeeze throttle = more weight on the rear wheels = less grip from the fronts = tight = understeer) than it has to do with pure horsepower or torque. Especially in our cars.

 

Could it also be defined as turning the car with the throttle?

Uh - no.

 

BTW... Any and all front wheel drive cars have torque steer. You can see it clearly if you release the steering wheel and launch.... even a geo metro 3 banger would steer to one side... don't need a turbo civic to see it.

 

last weekend I was having some really weird things happening to my S. everytime I up shifted the stearing wheel would jerk to the right and everytime I down shifted it would jerk to the left. I had been driving my wifes 335i for about 2 weeks and just thought that I hadnt noticed it before. Told a buddy about it that used to own an S2000 and knows a bunch more about cars than I do, he said I most likely had a flat tire. sure enough, we went out and I had 12 pounds of air in my right rear and you couldnt tell by looking at it. pulled the screw that was imbedded in it and pluged it for now. Everything seems to be working well now.

 

Actually we don't! The diff is offset to the left of the car with the exhaust running down the right. The shafts are a slightly different diameter, presumably to account for this.

 

I noticed the same problem, except I turned to the right when I accellerated and I don't remember anything unusual when I braked. As soon as I got home, I found out I had something like 7psi in my right rear tire due to a leak.

 

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same thing happend to me

one tire was at 30 psi and the other one was at around 22 psi..

i found out later i had a nail in my tire

 

Thanks.

 

Its not a 2 engine fighter aircraft