Hi folks,
'19 CX5, only driver, alignment was done months ago and was pretty spot-on. Tires were rotated at a discount tire last week and I double checked the torque with my own wrench today. I made an alignment appointment for tomorrow just in case.
So this morning I noticed my alignment was off and pulling to the left on my '19 CX5 about 3 miles away from my 46 mile drive to the office. It was perfectly fine before then. I had to angle my steering wheel to the right to go straight; like one of my rear toe was off by a couple degrees. Thinking that a small pothole I hit at an angle with the driver front tire this morning in 5-10mph traffic could have caused it, I made an alignment appointment.
Then on the way home I noticed something else, I had to angle the wheel to the right to drive straight but sometimes I could hold the steering wheel straight and the car will drive straight! It was as if the alignment was moving itself - but on bumps and road crowns. I made sure all the lugnuts were torqued right and did a quick look/feel under the car but nothing looked obviously damaged or loose.
I drove around the neighborhood and had the same thing. Came back in, lifted the drive front wheel off the ground, did a second look/feel, then drove around the neighborhood again and it seemed like the problem fixed itself or at least, went away for the moment. I do notice that I use less force to turn right, left turn steering force is normal, and the car feels "snappier" when turning right like my driver front toe is negative a couple degrees. Also did seem like the car "jittered" around more on those small and continuous wavy bumps on the highway.
I'm kind of lost by this, I'm not sure what I should check first or why this is even happening. I still have the alignment set for tomorrow, but I'm supposed to drive 9 hours on Wednesday to see some family.
'19 CX5, only driver, alignment was done months ago and was pretty spot-on. Tires were rotated at a discount tire last week and I double checked the torque with my own wrench today. I made an alignment appointment for tomorrow just in case.
So this morning I noticed my alignment was off and pulling to the left on my '19 CX5 about 3 miles away from my 46 mile drive to the office. It was perfectly fine before then. I had to angle my steering wheel to the right to go straight; like one of my rear toe was off by a couple degrees. Thinking that a small pothole I hit at an angle with the driver front tire this morning in 5-10mph traffic could have caused it, I made an alignment appointment.
Then on the way home I noticed something else, I had to angle the wheel to the right to drive straight but sometimes I could hold the steering wheel straight and the car will drive straight! It was as if the alignment was moving itself - but on bumps and road crowns. I made sure all the lugnuts were torqued right and did a quick look/feel under the car but nothing looked obviously damaged or loose.
I drove around the neighborhood and had the same thing. Came back in, lifted the drive front wheel off the ground, did a second look/feel, then drove around the neighborhood again and it seemed like the problem fixed itself or at least, went away for the moment. I do notice that I use less force to turn right, left turn steering force is normal, and the car feels "snappier" when turning right like my driver front toe is negative a couple degrees. Also did seem like the car "jittered" around more on those small and continuous wavy bumps on the highway.
I'm kind of lost by this, I'm not sure what I should check first or why this is even happening. I still have the alignment set for tomorrow, but I'm supposed to drive 9 hours on Wednesday to see some family.
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