I post here in sheer desperation, and to vent some steam...
I feel like my car has been totally trashed. A couple of weeks ago it went in for it's annual service & MOT and one of the items that was checked and "fixed" was the steering tracking. Except it wasn't broken because it drove in a perfectly straight line.
So I picked the car up just before the joint closed (on my way home from work) and on the drive home immediately noticed a strong pull to the right when I was accelerating. Would also drift right when coasting with the hands off the wheel.
So I complained and took it back. They re-adjusted it until the mechanic got it "spot on, can't fault it now sir". Bollocks was it spot on! Now it pulls to the left - only worse than it pulled to the right.
The guy gave me some bollocks about the camber of the road etc which I do accept they lean to the left for drainage, but unless all the roads have suddenly changed overnight my car never used to pull left.
So today I took it to the local kwik-fit joint and let the monkeys have ago. I didn't hold much hope and sure enough they've managed to f**k it it even more so it practically U-turns to the left by itself when you accelerate.
The monkey did give me a printout of the new measurements which I have pasted below. They mean nothing to me, but common sense tells me that adding to the figures to make them positives would cause it to pull right. Somewhere inbetween is straight ahead?
LEFT FRONT RIGHT FRONT TOE = -0'04' -0'05'
TOTAL TOE=0'07' STEER AHEAD=-0'04
Can someone please help me by telling what the hell they are adjusting on my car? What nut are they spinning? And why didn't they just leave the bloody thing alone because it was perfectly fine?
This is totally ruining my car, not to mention all the time off work I have to keep taking to arse around taking it back and back and back again to get it "fixed".
Can anyone please shed any light on what adjustments they have been making so I can hopefully go about sorting this f**king mess out.
Jesus my car was safer before it had an MOT...
Apologies for the rant all, I don't offen loose my rag but this has pissed me off to the utter extreme.