Re: 1 Rubbing Tire / Tilted car?!

["Tony" <roner@freeway.net>]

My 1990 200q has the same problem, only maybe not as bad as you describe.
It also looks to me like the passenger side is a little lower, although I
haven't measured it yet.  I had a mechanic look at it and he found nothing
wrong.  Took it to another (front end machanic this time).  He put it on the
rack, checked everything out, took it for a 20 mile drive, and told me he
could find nothing wrong with it.  I'll be watching this thread close
because it's starting to drive me nuts.  I'm starting to think that the car
is fine - maybe it's my head that needs repair.

Tony Fordham
'90 200Q


----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander van Gerbig <Audi_80@email.msn.com>
To: Fred Munro <munrof@isys.ca>
Cc: quattrolist <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:34 PM
Subject: 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
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