Tried to jump in on the other PS thread, but no takers. When I am accelerating in a turn, such as an on ramp, the car is really darty, tries to pull left and/or right. The steering feels like it's over assisted and any input is magnified by 10. Does anybody else have this feeling? It's not torque steer, not enough throttle to induce it. No feedback in the steering and it darts all over. Feels cheap to me. Car is an 04' 6MT. I also have a click in the front when I leave a parking spot after the car is sitting for a while. Have to be turning and accelerating for it to do it. Click speeds up as car speeds up. Taking it to the dealer, just thought I would see if I could figure it out first, since they probably won't.
Thanks

 

clicking while low speed turning is usually CV joint, the boots get torn and kiss the bearing goodbye, or too much fun or potholes will kill them too, even some good curbshots will do!

Darty- could be related to bearing issue, not turning freely

At low speed- if gen3 same as 2- the steering is boosted more to get into parking spots and gets tighter in the feel at freeway speeds and above to help it feel stable

 

i get that shit too and i got clicking sounds on the left and right. my father warned me that fwd joitns and axels are prone to crapping out like this.

 

my 06 6mt is at the dealer as we speak for axles, as for the steering feeling u get, yea i get that too, but nothing to wrry about in my opinion. it feels as if the power steering is helping too muc then its not then helping again.

 

Funny thing is that It didn't do this clicking until I picked the car up from the dealer after some warranty work. My fear is that they beat the crap out of my car for me. The boots are not torn, the car only has 36000 miles on it. It only does it when I first pull out of the driveway or parking spot after sitting for a few hours.

 

You're trying to tell me- with a handle of blueracer, that you NEVER played with this car and got on it hard and could have worn the cv bearings punching it at the apex????
CV noise is MOST obvious after parked and when just starting to move and worse if turn wheel, adding strain to the bearings
They can fail internally with good boots.
We always took spare axle units to the track with the fwd race cars

 

I have my fun in a purpose built race car on a race track in sanctioned events. I drive my car for transportation. It NEVER did this until I picked it up at the dearlership after unrelated warranty work. So the answer is no, I don't beat on my car. I don't need to beat my street car when I have a $50,000 race car to "beat on". So happens the race car is blue, that's why my handle is what it is.

 

Blue
As a fellow competition driver, I know my street car gets driven harder than the average persons car, especially braking and off the apex.
While not beating on it, it is still possible to exceed the street driven parameters of the parts design limit.

Its also possible the wash rack kid hurt it somehow, slid it into a curb exiting in water!
The sales manager of a dealer once insisted on bringing a special order jeep around front for the customer themself. He being a much better driver in the snow......
Moments later a dumpster was partially inside the car, or vise-versa

I would look underneath and raise the car and check the cv's, guessing you have access to a lift