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Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:15 am
by pat15312
maisbitt wrote:You should not have to pay to rectify a minor fault caused by the person who fitted the steering wheel suffering from "pontoon eyes" (one eye is sticking, one is twisting, but they're both bust)
i'll have to remember that one for the future!
Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:58 am
by rhcp128
Well, it wasn't misaligned from the beginning... It was a problem of the actual tires being misaligned and it only became noticeable after around 8-9k miles.
P.S. I live in Italy and VW dealers here are serious as*holes! I complained to VW Italy, they told me they would investigate and let me know and the end result was that I started getting VW Spam on my e-mail
Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:05 pm
by nfarinha
thats wat you (UK guys) get having the steering wheel in the rigth
Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:10 am
by maisbitt
We drive on the correct side of the road in the UK it's the rest of the world that got it wrong (apart from Malta, 1/2 of Africa, Japan and Australia)!
The majority of people are right handed, so it stands to reason that you'd want to keep your primary/strongest hand on the steering wheel at all times and use your secondary/weakest hand for leaving the steering wheel to change gear, use the handbrake or press buttons on the radio (or do your make-up/brush your hair/eat your breakfast on the way to work whilst driving - if you're a lass).
But anyway, most countries would agree that it would cost them too much money to switch sides now. You can keep your mm and kg - give me a pint of beer over a metric measure every time (unless it's a litre of beer).
I wonder whether RHD models do have more build issues than LHD models?
Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:35 pm
by Loxstokk
Mine pulls of to the left a bit but I thought that was normal. Designed to stop you driving into oncoming traffic if you fall asleep at the wheel/leave the handbrake off on a hill etc...
Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:54 pm
by Spiney
Loxstokk,
If its really pulling to the left (as opposed to turning slightly left when the wheel is centered) I'd get it checked out. That's definitely not right and won't be doing your tires any good at all!
Re: Steering wheel not perfectly straight...?
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:51 pm
by Loxstokk
When the steering wheel is perfectly straight, the car steers ever so slightly to the left.
This is normally isn't it??