Thread: Front wheels rubbing on hard lock...and now I have a shudder around corners...???

Okay so my band and I just got back from a gig in Sydney where we drove up using my Disco which I was very happy to do since I have a lot of faith in it and it's a great car for the open road. Shared the driving a bit which I was kind of reluctant to do but the only guy I shared driving with first is an Alpha enthusiast and a very sensible driver (no those two things aren't mutually exclusive apparently) so he was really great, drove it even more carefully than me and he's a very experienced driver of all sorts of cars (racing and off roading etc.)

Then on the way back my singer pipes up and says he would like a drive, and I was feeling tired so I let him take the wheel for a bit and he was okay apart from one silly thing when we got into Albury when he was turning into a driveway and he wrenched the steering onto full lock (left) and on my car (Big Guy's old one) the wheels rub underneath if you shove it on full lock so I'm just careful not to be too heavy handed with my steering and it's fine. Anyway so he put it on full lock quite hard, harder than I've ever done, and instead of letting go once he heard the noise he left it there and turned into the driveway all the while it scraping and rubbing underneath making a bit of a nasty noise. My bad I guess I didn't tell him it rubs on full lock...call me crazy but I didn't think you were meant to keep cars on full lock anyway but that's just me.

Anyway I hopped in afterward to drive the final leg back to Melbourne and straight away felt a bit of a shudder in the steering, coming up through the steering wheel mostly only when the wheels were turned going around a bend or a corner, not when going straight. It actually got quite bad at one stage when turning at some lights on a slight camber and not going especially slow so we all thought it was a flat and stopped only to find all the tyres were fine.

The only thing I can think that happened between when I stopped driving it and started again is that full lock rub. What effect can something like that actually have on the car to cause a shudder when going around corners?

Originally Posted by blitz

you should be able to see a mark where the lead weight was clipped onto the wheel, just remember they are on the inside edge as well

Okay great I'll check that out when I get a chance.