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1 Rubbing Tire / Tilted car?!



    Well I have to say that ever since I had the new suspension installed
the car seemed tilted to the passenger's side.  Yet I thought it was my eye
doing something funny because my liscense plate is tilted slightly the
opposite direction.  I removed the liscense plate and gave a good look
today, sure enough the car isn't sitting level.  Now that makes me worry
about bent frame, bent subframe...  best case bad strut mount/bearing.  I
also tried to get the driver's side front tire to rub in hard cornering but
I couldn't no matter how hard I drove.  I drive hard to the left and the
passenger's side front tire will rub.
    My theory, which may be completely wrong, is the strut mount is bad or
the bottom of the spring is bent/broken.  I have had a wandering problem on
bumpy highways.  I know that wider tires and lowered car (-60mm) will cause
certain tracking problems, bumpsteer mainly.  I understand that, yet on
smooth roads my car tracks like a train on rails without any handling
problems ever noticable.  If I have a bad strut mount/bearing and hit a bump
there will be an irregular camber change that may stay irregular until I hit
another bump.  On a bumpy highway my car seems to REALLY wander above 75mph,
I mean moving around a lane and further on it's own.  The steering wheel
will move out of my hand if I drive with light hand pressure.  If there was
a camber problem caused the by the strut mount/bearing that could cause the
wandering and the odd steering wheel behavoirs, right?
    I notice when I am on a road that is tilted I have to actually steer
slightly in the opposite direction to get the car to go straight.  I figured
that was a regular side-effect of having the car very low, is it?  Or does
that indicate an odd camber change?
    I am getting the front end up tomorrow for a full checkover and on
Thursday when my car goes back to the shop for the idle switch setting and
diff fluid check I'll ask them to give a professional gander at the front
end.  Anyone have any better ideas about what is the pathology of my car is?

Thanks ever so much, maybe time to get rid of my car since it is never ever
ever happy:-(
(No one tell my car I said that!)

Alexander van Gerbig
'88 Audi 80 -- Koni Yellows, G&M Springs
HÖR Technologies Sport Hydro Cam, K&N Filter
Borbet Type T, Dunlop SP9000 Sport

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