Hi all,
I know this is a newbie question and I promise I tried searching but nothing came up.

I live in sydney and the roads here are terrible. Trucks on hot days make up to 5 centimeter grooves in the roads because their heavy and the road becomes soft on hot days.

Anyway, this causes my steering wheel to quite dramatically move from left to right.

Even by holding the steering wheel with 2 hands and giving it all my strength to hold it steady, it still slightly moves left to right as it goes over these grooves in the road.

Is this normal and to what extent is it normal? The steering wheel stays dead straight on flat smooth surfaces just has a lot of problems over these kind of grooves on the road ...

 

Same happens for my car. I'm lowered so its even worse.

 

Yes it is normal. Since the steering on the S2K is very sensitive any varience in the road will be felt in the steering wheel. The worse the road surfice the more you will notice wheel movemnet.

 

if it's normal then i'm okay with it but it's so bad that if i don't hold onto the steering wheel the car may suddenly smash into the divider or car beside me ...

 

Its normal - the steering is directly connected to the wheels and the turning radius is quick, so you really full the road tug on your wheel.

Maybe a bumpsteer kit would help keep the suspension from tugging the car around too... do you have an aftermarket suspension?

 

Ever think about an alignment? I'm not saying that your alignment is off, but if you add some caster it could help.

 

sounds normal to me. . very grippy tires will do that.. and s2k handles
also steering is very sensitive

 

It's called tramlining. Driving on non-crappy roads is the fix.

 

that's what I wanetd to hear. excellent.
Just wanetd to make sure it wasn't just me.
Thanks all,

 

To fix it, start driving on the "right" side of the road.


If the symptoms dissapear on good roads, the car is fine.