Afternoon All,

 

04 Fabia VRS

 

I have recently had my tracking done and since then I have been putting more attention into how the car feels on the road while driving and an annoying trait has become apparent.

 

No matter what speed I go, I can feel the feedback of the road through the steering wheel.

 

In my Mrs car, (07 focus) the steering wheel is still and vibration free every time I have drove it. When I jump in mine and drive the same road, even though the car doesn’t pull to either side, I can feel every bump or even surface in the steering wheel.

 

Is there any way to rectify this at all, or as anyone else had a similar experience?

 

Bushes and track rods replaced within the last 2 years

Wow, I can't believe you're complaining, I reset my power steering to minimum assist with speed sensitivity and it still feels a bit remote. You lucky man, if you get to the bottom of it tell me how you fixed it so I can reverse engineer your changes.

Likewise; getting more feedback strikes me as the exact opposite of a problem!

Would thick woolly gloves not work???

 

Edit:- if he wanted to take it to extremes, maybe a pair of ones like you should really use with a chainsaw? (I am only trying to cheer myself up as I've got a horrible cold!)

Edited 21 February, 20188 yr by rum4mo

Lol..

 

Because i dont use it to bomb around in, i just cruise around on the motorway to work etc.. and just take stillness and less feedback feel as more refined.

 

On motorway if i let go of steering wheel it doesnt pull either left or right.. but jutters (slightly) with any change in road surface. 

 

On cobbled roads even slow i feel like steering wheel has a mind of its own 

 

what are the console bushes like?

@benni8 - So you don't care if, for example:-

1. The road surface is starting to break up
2. TRS is muddy
3. A sudden drop in temperature has left you driving on sheet ice?

maybe the OP is referring to excessive vibrations rather than 'good' feedback through the wheel. Could a wheel be out of balance? took me ages to realise one of mine was buckled as i only noticed something was up when driving on a smooth road and wondered why the steering wheel had so much 'feedback' on a newly surfaced road.

So if any of you guys got on the motorway.. at 70mph in a straight line the steering wheel is completely vibration free to your hands?

with regular rubber wishbone bushes then probably, with poly ones there is some vibration but i'm so used to it i can only notice if i concentrate hard on it.

It's going to depend on what you mean by "vibrations".

 

There's no "out of balance moment" at 100mph on my private test track, but I am made aware of road imperfections at 50mph on the public highway.