Hey ho 

 

 

First of all love the forum, love the members here, Very nice. So here we goo !  Got my brand new Octy yesterday So far so good. Love the car, Topic about the car itself is coming. Just little question. When i drove off the dealer yesterday i noticed that steering wheel is not centered. Its off to the left i would say 10-15 degrees (i mean not slightly). Car drives good and goes straight. I take a call to my dealer and he booked me for next week, but he also mentioned that brand new car need some time to "burn in", and he also mention that the front axel with all of its Bushings and bearings and other stuff need it aswell. He said Bushings will get into its own place by the time and the steering wheel will center itself out. Is it correct or should i be worried ? 

 

 

 

the steering wheel will center itself out.

 

He's talking rubbish!

I can smell it from here!

That is the biggest load of bull I have heard in a long time.

Ask them for a full chassis geometry check as no way should your steering be 15 degrees off centre to drive straight ahead.

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Car is booked for Allignment next Thursday. Basicly when you hold your hands at 10 and 2 position on the steering wheel, the left hand is way lower then it should be.

If it was only 2-5 degrees out you can easily sort this with the tracking rods, but 10-15 degrees sounds like the steering wheel has been attached to the steering column at the wrong angle, if it is out that much I doubt there will be enough play in the track rods to fix it.

Seems very odd no one noticed this before handing it over!

Will take a pic tomorrow. I tried all kind of roads, new ones, old ones, paved, unpaved. All the same. 

I hope not at your expense

its a brand new car. It only has 66km on the clock right now. Sure it will go under warranty. 

If it's off center, it's off center!

Back to the dealer....

As previously stated it could be as simple as it was put on at an angle at the factory.  Dealer can easily take it off and re-align it.

 

If the BS your dealer said was true then anyone with a straight steering wheel would be upset after a few miles as it would go off centre when all the bushes etc sorted themselves out!

Yeah thats what i thought aswell. Dealer suggested me to drive 1500 - 2000 kilometers and if then the steeringwheel is off, then i should come to see them. I said no, give me first free time and i come now. Will see what happens next thursday.

If it drives straight and it is equal turns lock to lock then it is more than likely the wheel has been put on off centre.

If it isn't equal turns lock to lock I would be seriously concerned.

Is the steering wheel straight when the steering column lock engages, or is it offset the same as driving straight ahead?

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Cant say it for sure. Drives straight tho. Will post tomorrow about lock to lock and column lock.

How can a PDI miss that. That's a shocker.

What's an even bigger shocker is the dealer response. Remind me never to go there.

Thats just astounding.

Remind me never to go there.

 

Note to Briskodavrs:  Don't buy your next car from Estonia.

 

There... will that suffice? 

How can a PDI miss that. That's a shocker.

What's an even bigger shocker is the dealer response. Remind me never to go there.

Thats just astounding.

 

 

Im pretty sure you don't go to dealer 3000 miles away from you But yeah thats the local dealer response. Will do the lock to lock test tomorrow. Will keep you posted  

Got to agree with several other posters here… total utter bu****it!

 

If any dealer came out with that one to my face I think I'd be rolling around on the floor laughing! 

So today before going to work i made a test. Start up the car. Center the steering wheel and then do full lock to left and right. To right it was about 1.6 turns (one full turn and little bit over half till full lock). To left it was about 1.7 turns. Took a picture aswell. Perfect road. Straight one barely any camber to right. Car runs good. Runs straight as an arrow when steeringwheel is bit left. Column lock activates nicely. While activation steeringwheel doesnt move or do anything. It just locks. Sorry for bad quality of the picture.

Looks wonky to me!

Is the wheel as per the picture when the column lock is on, or is the wheel centered (you would drive to the right slightly)?

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Every Skoda I have ever owned (3 - Fabia vRS estate, Mk2 Octavia vRS estate and the MK3) has come with the wheel ever so slightly off centre, my MK3 Octavia is the same, slightly off to the left...enough to notice but not really annoy.

Having had a v bad experience with a VW main dealer a while back correcting the wheel offset on a Golf Bluemotion I've been inclined ever since to just leave it be. I might get the alignment done at some point to resolve it but given the car tracks straight and true and isn't wearing tyres in an odd fashion going to leave alone for now.

To be fair your offset does look worse than mine though and would probably irritate me too (as I have mild OCD).

There is a slight offset and then there is this issue, it has clearly been put on wonky!

 

Get them to sort it and for the record mine is dead straight.

It looks like the steering wheel has been put on a few splines out rather than the tracking being off to me.

Another theory. They or various delivery drivers could have hit something, ie a curb, pot hole etc. Replaced the wheel & had the tracking corrected (badly). But they haven't checked the steering wheel position in the mad rush to do it before anyone saw it. Could be wrong though.

Is the wheel as per the picture when the column lock is on, or is the wheel centered (you would drive to the right slightly)?

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Steering wheel is at same position when the lock is engaged. When on tghe move i correct the steeringwheel to center, cars starts going to right, not badly, but enough to not do it on the higher speeds. I don't belive that factory person wreck the car or something on the curb.  When i got the car it had only 4km on the clock (factory testing ?)