R32 Alignment Settings

[brad]

define weird?

Not as it felt in the past? Not feeling stable/normal/as good as previous?

I know from my old Liberty that moving the rear toe from 1mm toe out to 2mm made it too lively for relaxed driving.

Changing the front from 1mm toe out to 1mm toe in had significant affect on the turn-in and general feel in the steering.

[Vdubya]

Hi Brad, its hard to convey in words but it is noticably different from before i sent the car for a wheel alignment. At the time i brought it in, the car was tracking straight, but the steering wheel was abit slumped to the right.

This was enough to annoy me, and having never done a wheel alignment before i thought why not check, since i had on occasion gone over some nasty potholes. In hindsight, i was kind of wishing i never did this and almost tempted enough to bring the car back to where i bought it and get them to make adjustments so its defaulted to factory specs.

Suffering pretty much the same symptoms as "r32dsg" has determined in his post.

[Vdubya]

Just an update i thought id bring my car into "heasman" having heard alot of rave reports about them, and determined what the problem was to the handling of the car, which no form of alignment would have fixed.

One of the apprentices, drove the car with me for a good 30mins, and couldnt forsee a problem, the car tracked straight turn in right/left and steering wheel was centre aligned. Decided to bring the car up on a hoist, because when reverse gear was engaged he heard a "clunk", which i thought was normal, and just a DSG gearbox oddity.

Only then discovered that "i think" its referred to as the front control arm, which was attached to the left wheel was quite loose (was easily able to wedge a flathead screwdriver in the gap and move it around).

He mentioned something about possibly having to replace the front control arm, but doing some research wouldnt it be easier to just replace the bushings?

Said before another alignment was attempted this would need to be soughted and he would call VW for a quote. I'm still covered for manufacturer warranty so would a "control arm" be classified as a wear-tear item?

[brad]

Said before another alignment was attempted this would need to be soughted and he would call VW for a quote. I'm still covered for manufacturer warranty so would a "control arm" be classified as a wear-tear item?

A fair few of my Subaru buddies have had the lower control arm bushes replaced under warranty.

It's worth giving it a shot as I'd guess about $400+ to do the job (if you have to buy a whole arm).

I'd also be asking the other mob for your money back as part of doing any alignment is to check the suspension for wear. There is no point doing an alignment if there is uncontrolled movement in the suspension assembly.