I am getting a funny pulling feeling in the car when accellerating at speed - it seems to be pulling slightly to the left, and then to the right when i slow down using gears - feels more pronounced at speed (60-80) than when accelerating slowly.

Seems to have only been doing it today on the way back from Oxford meet

Any ideas what it could be?

 

Maybe an alignment issue?

 

Slow puncture maybe ??

Bharat

 

its not alignment - had that checked last week tyre pressures are ok all round

 

... are you inadvertantly moving the steering wheel?!!!!

 

It has to be tyre pressure/alignment/streering or road camber. I reckon if all is good mechanically you were just probably on a `strange` stretch of road. Have another go in the morn. See how it is.

 

It sounds like typical pressure difference symptoms to me, but, if you're sure about the tyre pressures being good, I'd say it could well be the diff. If it's only when you accelerate or decelerate, I doubt it's any alignment issue as I would expect that you'd feel it all the time in that case.

 

If the road surface was not perfect and you had different amounts of traction in each of the back wheels then that is normal. It is because of the limited slip differential. It makes you feel as if you are doing a very slight slalom (tiny change of direction as if the car slips and instantly corrects itself) when accelerating hard. it is very common if you accelerate hard on a straight B road with crap tarmac.

 

Problem with the differential?

 

Problem with only having one painted caliper ?