Good afternoon,
Wasn't aware of this forum until today, hoping the knowledge of users on here can help me with a steering related issue I'm currently experiecing with my Accord 2.2 i-DTEC ES GT. Thanks for any suggestions or advice in advance!
Just to give you abit of background to this problem. I'm currently experiencing the car pulling from right to left, what I have noticed when i accelerate the steering wheel jolts to the right and when i let off the accelerator pedal it pulls physically back to the left. you can repeat the issue with the throttle control. the car is wandering alot on the road. So i decided to investigate the fault, I found multiple issues with the car when inspecting, Both lower control arm front bushes were heavily worn and cracked, I decided to replace both complete control arms as the car has done 140k. I also found a nearside front upper control arm balljoint with excessive play, I believed i had found the issue when finding this! I decided to replace both upper control arms while I was there. both track rod end boots were split and leaking grease so decided to replace both while it was apart. i found the nearside front brake dragging, pads were nearly on the wear plate so i replaced front discs and pads today. I'm still due to take the car for alignment after the work completed but on test drive to bed the brakes in today the car still pulls from right to left on throttle. I'm abit stumped now. I've had the car on a MOT shaker plate to see if i could find something i had missed but the MOT tester couldnt see any play in the ball joints.
I'm going to take the track rod ends off again tomorrow and check the inner tie rods incase they have play, has anyone had this issue before? Do these cars suffer with subframe bushes? I'm planning to drive to Paris in May half term so hoping i can resolve this soon.
Wasn't aware of this forum until today, hoping the knowledge of users on here can help me with a steering related issue I'm currently experiecing with my Accord 2.2 i-DTEC ES GT. Thanks for any suggestions or advice in advance!
Just to give you abit of background to this problem. I'm currently experiencing the car pulling from right to left, what I have noticed when i accelerate the steering wheel jolts to the right and when i let off the accelerator pedal it pulls physically back to the left. you can repeat the issue with the throttle control. the car is wandering alot on the road. So i decided to investigate the fault, I found multiple issues with the car when inspecting, Both lower control arm front bushes were heavily worn and cracked, I decided to replace both complete control arms as the car has done 140k. I also found a nearside front upper control arm balljoint with excessive play, I believed i had found the issue when finding this! I decided to replace both upper control arms while I was there. both track rod end boots were split and leaking grease so decided to replace both while it was apart. i found the nearside front brake dragging, pads were nearly on the wear plate so i replaced front discs and pads today. I'm still due to take the car for alignment after the work completed but on test drive to bed the brakes in today the car still pulls from right to left on throttle. I'm abit stumped now. I've had the car on a MOT shaker plate to see if i could find something i had missed but the MOT tester couldnt see any play in the ball joints.
I'm going to take the track rod ends off again tomorrow and check the inner tie rods incase they have play, has anyone had this issue before? Do these cars suffer with subframe bushes? I'm planning to drive to Paris in May half term so hoping i can resolve this soon.
