A tworque Monster
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Nice one ? get some pics up on here! ?Hi A torque monster,
Picked up a spare dogbone in the market place & cut out the old bush, soda blasted & now waiting for
powerflex bush to arrive this week.
Thanks
Keith.
Nice one ? get some pics up on here! ?Hi A torque monster,
Picked up a spare dogbone in the market place & cut out the old bush, soda blasted & now waiting for
powerflex bush to arrive this week.
Thanks
Keith.
I had a Citroen ZX many moons ago that developed exactly those symptoms over time. It would also be difficult to settle into faster right-hand bends. For me it was a bush on one of the wishbones. That was basically where Rusty got to as well, I think, although in his case it wasn't done up far enough rather than being worn. Possibly the excessive toe on your car was disguising it?
@Rusty911, yes there could be something wrong with bushing or ball joints.
I agree the A2 is very forgiving at tracking, but only at toe out, it has almost no influence on pulling to left or right (does wear out tyres).
I had an experience with an A2 giving the same symptoms; pull to the right on power, back in/slightly pull to left when power off/braking.
Was down to worn bush at the back of the wishbone.
Replaced bush, car behaved the same....... Then checked aligning/toe in/out (should have done before changing the bush, then again I'm no professional for sure.... ?) and there was (very much) toe in.
After setting it up to zero, all was fine again.
Then again maybe it was sheer luck.....
You had an exceptional story (I hope for all A2 owners.... ?) and glad you've found the solution (post #121), but also hope for @longdog they made an error performing the alignment and set up is brought to toe in.
Thank you, Rusty911 and others, for your very helpful answers. I'm going to take the car to a trusted garage to have the bushes really carefully examined, and then decide what to do. I will relate Rusty911's experience. You've confirmed that there's no point at this stage in going back to ATS to have the alignment checked again.
Thanks again.