Steering Wheel Misaligned Slightly

KillerWatt

Take the car to a place that can do proper 4 wheel geometry, you'll know when you've found that place because they will be using a Hunter HawkEye.
I'll bet it's nothing more than at some point the "tracking" has been adjusted and the steering wheel wasn't centered before any adjustments were made.

Here's a couple of YouTube vids regarding vehicle geometry, once you've watched them then you'll see there is a tad more to getting a vehicle to drive in a straight line than just "tracking"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_ObExBTU0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opnl9H1lrjo

tomstickland

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

If that fixes it, then the OP has some serious problems!

Steering wheel.

cyclonebri1

Sandoval wrote: »

A carp is a type of fish.

The unnecessarily huge font does the spelling mistake no favours.

I'm not a huge member of the "spelling and grammar police" that you speak of in your signiture but if you're going to go to the trouble of highlighting three words and making them massive you could do worse than to check they're spelled right at the same time.

Have you had a sense of humour bypass?

I didn't think it was that subtle but I'll spell it out for you, correctly or incorectly.

1, I dont wish to avail myself to a liable case by KF

2, The overwhelming advice given to anyone who asks about KF is stay away, if big letters reinforce this as the message doesn't seem to have got across, then it's justified

and 3, well if you mistook that for a spelling error..............oh I give up
:wall::wall::wall:

Wee_Willy_Harris

tomstickland wrote: »

Steering wheel.

Who are you calling a steering wheel?

Oh, I see.

My mistake.

tomstickland

Yes. On the cars I've owned it's always been possible to undo the nut holding the wheel onto the steering column, pull wheel of and put it back on at another angle.
Strictly speaking, the rack should be centered first, so that both rod ends are the same length and the same distance from the rack when the car is pointing straight ahead.

colino

Please don't do this on a modern car, removing the airbag is tricky enough for a diyer, but screwing up the clockspring by mistake will cost you plenty. Easier and cheaper to change the setting properly by adjusting, or having, the tracking adjusted.

datostar

With proper Minis you could just undo the pinch bolt at the bottom of the column and pull the whole lot off, steering wheel and all. In fact they sometimes came off anyway when driving along! Alignment on the splines was very easy as long as you remembered to tighten up the bolt properly afterwards. Darn things!

Wee_Willy_Harris

tomstickland wrote: »

Yes. On the cars I've owned it's always been possible to undo the nut holding the wheel onto the steering column, pull wheel of and put it back on at another angle.
Strictly speaking, the rack should be centered first, so that both rod ends are the same length and the same distance from the rack when the car is pointing straight ahead.

The nut holding the wheel is often at the root of the problem.

cyclonebri1

tomstickland wrote: »

Yes. On the cars I've owned it's always been possible to undo the nut holding the wheel onto the steering column, pull wheel of and put it back on at another angle.
Strictly speaking, the rack should be centered first, so that both rod ends are the same length and the same distance from the rack when the car is pointing straight ahead.

Fine pre airbag days, still possible now but much more complicated and for dangerous if tackled incorrectly:eek:

cyclonebri1

Colino, can't believe I've just cloned another one of your posts without reading all the repies, unintentional sorry:)