I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. There is an onramp to a highway near me that has a very steep grade over some distance. The grade is steep enough that lesser cars such as corollas and civics can only barely crawl up. Anyway, when I go full throttle up the hill (of course), I experience what feels just like serious torque steer in a front wheel drive car. Just moving the steering wheel a little bit causes it to tug quite hard in one direction or another. It only happens on this particular climb. Any ideas or similar experiences?
Wait till you turn up the power, it will get worse, my car does that at 65MPH while it claws through most of third trying to find traction, on a flat road!
What you are feeling is how bad it gets when the weight of the car is transferred to the rear, it has to fight harder for traction from the loss of the weight over the front tires. Turn up the power and accelerating hard has the same outcome, harder transfer to the rear. All FWD cars do it, just some is worse than others. Now imagine a car with no LSD and power and you would really have your hands full on that road, or at least be spinning up most of it.
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your tires are following ruts in the road from heavy semis? Theres roads around me like that, i only notice it when moving fast over the area.
That's what I thought at first, but the road is smooth, and has two lanes. I have gone all over the two lanes trying to see if there is a pattern, or if there is some lateral slope I don't see. But I don't think so. It is very odd, because it feels just like torque steer in a badly engineered front wheel drive car! I drive up that onramp every day on the way to work, and I never felt anything like it in any other car (rear wheel drive) I have driven on that onramp.
On a slope like that, the effect of the front wheel traction should be less, even if the AWD system transfers more to the front wheels. I don't understand it.
What you are feeling is how bad it gets when the weight of the car is transferred to the rear, it has to fight harder for traction from the loss of the weight over the front tires.
That makes sense, but does it feel worse when you go up a steep hill? I would expect the rears to have much more traction going up a steep hill. I read somewhere that the SRT-8 has 95%-90% of the traction going to the rear, so it is odd to feel so much [what feels like] torque steer.
I know exactly what your talking about, thats the first i noticed when i picked it up. I really feel it when accelerating around turns and even on the highway switching lanes quickly. whichever way you turn the wheel it continues to pull in that direction too much...even if you let go of the wheel.
it doesnt straighten out if you know what im trying to say.
I hope they come out with a fix for this.
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Torque steer when gunning it up a steep hill?
I drive up that onramp every day on the way to work, and I never felt anything like it in any other car (rear wheel drive) I have driven on that onramp.
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