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850 steering now lacks self-centering at full lock 850 1995

posted by  someone claiming to be dave on  Fri Jul 6 11:16 CST 2007 [RELATED]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your feedback. I shall now assign much less importance to this recent change in my car's steering's behavior. I'm running the fronts at 33 psi now and it's just as you nicely described yours, though there is a bit of hystersis-like effect (diff effort/resistance at increasing vs decreasing steering angles). At 32 psi, where I could run them OK on the old struts, the problem is grossly exaggerated.

I've found a known good tech (and [former] racer) at the dealer (the last tech, the one I thought I knew, the one who installed the struts+, was at first dismissive of my initial/immediate concerns with the alignment/steering, then -- w/o my knowledge or consent -- charged me multiple times for what I was clearly led to believe was a complimentary/compensatory/friendly/careful re-alignment, and when I declined to be so ripped off -- I ponied up another $30 = 1/2 what I'd paid for the original alignment -- the dealer, unbeknownst to me, paid the tech's outrageously exaggerated extortion/demand and declared me to be the bad guy!) willing to give the steering a once-over and put the car back on the alignment rack...

I trust/hope I won't have anything but better news to share with you after that.





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