Scary snaking thing going on..

[agroupuk]

Hi all,

Got a question for ya\'s.

Went to the lake district today - first distance run in the car since i bought it from a member on here (Kermit).
Anyway - was fine if a little twitchy compared to my last car (is this normal?) but anyway...
I was doing around 70 when i made the move to leave the motorway off onto the slip road. I turned in from the slow lane and turned the car back to a straight position and thats when it happened.

If any of you have expeienced a good fishtail - well it was like a mini one of those. The car kind of \'wobbled\' from left to right and back again a good few times before i had dropped enough speed to correct it. It wasnt a massive twist it was more like a gentle but scary weaving. I doubt the car moved more than a foot each way but it was a touch disconcerting.

Could this be tracking or something more serious? maybe a power steering issue?

Any help apreciated as I will be keeping the car off the motorway until I get it sorted (scared the hell out of the wife btw lol)

Thanks in advance.

Edd

[banned advertiser]

Get it in to Pip and have the susspension and bushes checked.
Doubt its steering or tracking
Make sure your not running Jap rubber to

[clive]

Sure you haven\'t just got a soggy tyre because this is the symptom you describe ?

[ds2000]

Yep, my mate had a spin in his S2000 as one of his tyres had dropped to 26psi, check that first.  Check your tyre pressure weekly.

[Prof]

I concur with the above - would never think that so much handling can be lost for a few psi difference on one wheel.:Hammer
 
Weekly check of all 4 tyres is a good plan to have.:yes

[iaint]

Could be as simple as bad road surface - tramlining in lorry ruts or odd camber.  These toys are pretty sensitive to that...

[Ricco_04]

I have this terrible in my car at the moment, usually is bushes having excess play.  I have 1 of these shot at the moment and my wheel alighnment is terrible!

[andysmee]

I had this and found I had been running on a flat tyre for several days due to a large screw in the tyre. Gotta say, run-flats rock, in that respect!!!

[Adriansturgess]

Another thing to consider is possible greasy road surface. Sounds a bit like tyres though. The first tyres I had on my car were Jap imports and they were so hard they were almost brittle. Nothing to do with tyre pressures; they just didn\'t grip. Gave me a few scares before I changed them!!!!:2eek. From your description it doesn\'t sound like you were accelerating hard at the time so likely to be tyres or road surface or combination of both.

[Cally]

eeek ive been running jap tyres for about 3 weeks lol and drove 800 miles in 2 days on them lol. Better hurry and buy some alloys.