My Toledo has just started to show me an entertaining way of keeping me focused at the wheel!
The car gently sways to the left and the steering wheel looks like it is turning a few degrees to the left too... Also, when I brake the little Tolly heads for the kerb!!!
What could be causing this?! I think I'd like to get it sorted sooner rather than later...
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I don't suppose by any chance you became a victim of our infamous potholes that we enjoy in the Chichester area? Might be an idea to check your suspension and tracking.
as said a binding brake caliper or tyre pressures can upset the opposing kingpin castor balance but also unequall castor from side to side through unequally disintegrated bushes or possibly bent mountings ,
just to add if it helps
a suddenly leaking damper or weakened spring on the opposite side to the pulling can also upset the balance, infact even a rear weakened spring can have a minor effect by loading up the front spring on the same side with more weight ,rotating tyres can cause the issue if one side is worn down unequally across its width due to effecting the contact center distance from the kingpin pivot centreline
also unlikely but siezing suspension also has a noticable effect when braking hard
i would check the condition of all that stuff, and also jack it up middle of the diff hump to see if one wheel lifts off significantly before the other and if say the nearside rear does then measure the wheelcenter to wheelarch lips to check which one is the lowest measurement and thereby the possible issue
HTH
Try checking the drag link from the subframe to lower wishbone in particular the state of the rubber bushes and this sometimes cuts through the steel arm itself! However poly bushes are cheaper and oodles better than stock rubber.
Other area worth a check is the rear axle top angle arms and again its the state of the bushes.
In short check all nuts and bolts as almost anything can break on these cars with age.
As stated the Chichester roads are a disgrace and I have in the last 2 years lost awheel and seperately a tyre in the Westbourne area, but the council are fixing them gradually.
Every year before Goodwood the council run around like loonies filling in the roads to create a good impression for event visitors. Trouble is, it is only cosmetic so that when the events are over and the weather turns, the potholes reappear bigger and better than before.
The road from the A3 through Haslemere and my village ,Fernhurst were specialy tarted up for the Festival of Speed and are now just starting to deterioate again.
I had a pulling to the left problem on my car and never could manage to find the problem before I started to restore it. It wasn't until I pulled the front hubs apart that I found that one of the wheel bearings had seized and had ground a 3mm deep groove in the stub axle.
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