valentinoamoro
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2018 PP2 would be awesome. Any chance this could be due to the Steeda bearings in front tension arm?Well, my car is at the dealer getting its steering rack looked at. They so far have done a programming update to it (mine had some old programming) and the tech reset something that resets the yaw or some such stored memory in the car. I dunno what he was on about. Anyway, I may need a new rack, we'll see, but he said so far it seems to be acting normal. But I'm the one going on track with this so... I'll be the judge.
Overall, the reason I took it in was because the difference between Comfort and Sport and Regular (whatever the three settings are called) is so minimal you might as well not even have the settings (this has always been the case in my car) and lately there was a lot of play on center such that I all of a sudden the steering wheel was being affected by road imperfections where as before it was as stable as can be and no matter how I set and align the car it tramlines with the same wheels/tires as before. I got under the car and checked the tie rods and bumpsteer kit, which seemed fine to me. It also has never really "returned to center" like other cars I drive. It will go toward center but then stop and I always feel like I'm doing more to manipulate the wheel to center than in other cars, even other Mustangs. Like I can't always just let the wheel straighten with my fingers not gripping the wheel -- make sense? Sometimes I can, other times not. This issue I thought was an alignment issue but I had TWO alignments trying to address and it's just not feeling right.
I've complained to two Ford dealers in the past about my steering and they all said it was fine and didn't even document they looked at it. If I need a new rack and Ford won't cover it under warranty because it was never documented that it's been looked at, then I may try to install a 2018 rack from the PP2 car, if it's different. Maybe it is... I don't know but those come with bigger wheels so maybe they made it better.
There are folks in the S197 forums with who mentioned a similar bearing swap caused shaking and other issues with steering. Apparently what was happening was it was causing issues with the EPAS resulting in shudder etc. I think Ford updated the programming.
Ugh, 6g is changing the link as it's to a different forum.
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