I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem with the Tein SS kit. My car kinda twitches to either side all of a sudden when driving at high speeds. I've been adjusting them to see what type of ride I like, but I don't know if that has to do with what the car is doing. I also recently replaced the driver side cv joint.
did you get an alignment done yet?
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Yeah I did, twice. The car drives straight when I let go of the wheel but it feels like it's so sensitive to any curve on the street. If the road is smooth and straight the car drives fine but any little dip causes the car to steer off.
Ive noticed this as well however ive yet to get things aligned and proper heights per tein specs
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I haven't noticed this. Though I did switch from the Type Basics to the Super Streets. You may recognize, if you are changing over from a stock suspension that these bumps and irregularities in the road are no longer soaked up by the soft stock suspension. They gotta go somewhere, looks like it's your steering wheel.
might have something to do with your axles, they say they should be replaced as pairs, or it wears the other out along with the new one at an accelerated rate.
Going to agree with someone else above - that's just part of the game when you go to tighter components and when you remove most of the "swag" as it were from a car's stock suspension set up. All those the little twitches left and right that would normally be soaked up by a "loose" suspension rig now make it all the way through the rack and into your hands. It's just the way it is. That said if extreme or obviously not as the result of road input something to look out for - PARTICULARLY in the case of strut "insert" type replacements which use the original strut housing from the stock suspension like Koni Red's and Koni Yellows do - if you examine the base of the strut housing and find that the bolt which attaches the strut insert to the housing has started to loosen (it's easy to tell because the two metal washers will start to jiggle and clink on every little bump plus you could lay down and finer them to make them clink with your finger if it's loose) then this will permit the strut insert it's self to shift and move about 1/8 of an inch inside the strut housing from the bottom. This makes for a wild ride - if not extremely intolerable to start with, should you leave it loose eventually you run the risk of the bolt falling out and BOOM your spring exploding off the perch and rocketing the corner of the car into the air....
Imagine having that happen @ 70mph..... (would be a disaster for many lives if in traffic)
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depending how low you went you might have opened the can of bump steer , and made it more noticable
that and the lack of soft rubber upper mount , make for more feeback to the driver
How did you like the Tein basics Cheribum? How low can you lower the car witht he basics also?
[quote=97cavie24ls(JDM&00s/c sedans™)]depending how low you went you might have opened the can of bump steer , and made it more noticable
that and the lack of soft rubber upper mount , make for more feeback to the driver
+1...
most roads, even freshly paved ARE NOT perfect. bumps, ridges, ripples etc....
the avg person drives this daily, and people with crap coilovers, aka the high spring rates and no damping.... they always get pissed when someone lets em know.
as long as its not a bearing thats sticking on the wheel bearing, you are basically getting road feedback, which in a performance sense is what you want.
no, this is completley different. The car handled really well at first, but after a while with the new cv joint it started twitching severely to the sides. I almost slam into cars next to me. I think I'm going to replace both cv joints to see if it fixes the problem. Thanks for the input guys.
CV joints wouldn't cause swerving like that. That sounds like something's loose.
Please tell me you're not still driving it. If you cannot control the car it's not safe for you to drive. It sounds like something's loose, like CTS said.
