Sorry if i posted on the wrong place and thanks in adavance for reading.


I just got a 94 integra 4 door ls not my first honda before this had a h22 ek

My problem is:
When i go on the snow no matter how fast im going (but i dont go over 20 mph because of this problem) the rear end goes torwards one side usualy the rear goes to the left and the front to the right its weird. Only does it on the snow...and on the highway on normal driving conditions if i hit a bump it jumps a bit to the side.

None of my friends can figure it out. Last owner says it needs a front passenger control arm but I dont know if this would cause this.

suspention setup:
I havent done anything to it yet car is pretty much stock exept for drop zone struts only on rear and drop zone coil overs all around its not to dropped.

 

if something is bent that could be your problem id take it in for an alignment and see wat they say

 

thats going to be my first try im taking it for an alignment and see whats up but I dont know if that would help.

 

Without LSD the right tire has the power, also driving on the right side of the road, along with snow, the car tends to slide to the right a little when it's slippery.

If it's something else or worse than this. Get your car aligned.
Chances are you didn't get it aligned when you put the lowering springs on.

Once you take it to the shop, they should tell you if any bushings are bad or not.

 

so your car is crab walking when driving in the snow? sure your frame isn't bent?

 

my 96 2 door Teg does the same thing!! i can't figure it out... I'm not running winter tires, my alignment is good. On smooth tarmac it drives straight and true. As soon as I hit the snow she's all over the place, and at any speed too... fast, slow, in between. Pisses me off and I can't figure it out.

 

Get all four wheels laser aligned and see what the print off sheet says for toe and caster.
Check your wheels bearings
Check height of vehicle at all four wheel wells and make sure it's not sagging on one side.
Also, if your caliper is sticking SLIGHTLY in the rear you wouldn't notice it on the road but if it gets slippery it would possibly cause that.

 

dont think so I do think that it has a bad lower control arm in the front passenger side after paying more attention to it thats how it feels when I get to the snow the tire feels like it wobles and I guess sience that happends the rear tires follow but on friday ill know for sure taking to the shop ill post the numbers and if anyone can tell me whats wrong or point me on the right dirrection.

thanks for the replies

 

I have had civics during winter time and also and accord this has never happend to me. I didnt put the springs on it and im going to end up changing them anyways only hear bad things about the ones I have on right now possibly some skunks 2 springs later.

Hopefully nothing big because I have alot of plans for the DB

 

wow sucks..

 

Ok so i took it to my friends shop and after looking under the car I found out this:

2 rear bent lower control arms.
2 front lower control with bad bushings passenger side lca bent.
Rear passenger tire wearing out all other are good.


My friend sead that it was hit before but the frame is not bent just the LCA , I ordered the rear ones aftermarket and im gona put energy bushings in the fronts hopefully takes care of the problem.

 

DAMN man how does a car bend that many control arms but not bend the frame? If that's true then you're pretty lucky!

And don't put ES bushings in the LCA's. Those are junk. Go with new OEM rubber or HardRace hard rubber bushings.

 

Might also check the rear trailing arm bushings while your back there. Mine were trashed and the car would shift to one side or the other when going over small bumps.

 

Is he sure that the rear LCAs are bent?
g3 Integra LCAs are bent looking, not like the g2s.

 

Ill check the hard race see whats up with those

 

my question is how do you bend a control arm? i want to see a pic! post when up when you get those bad boys replaced...that is def a first for me in all car repairs...

 

it could be that they just look bent thats what i thought but the bushings do look really bad.

the only one that I know for a fact that is bent is the passenger front one im fixing the rear ones first because its scary to drive like this on the swow and next week do the front ones..



Im trying to fix all of the problems with it im really trying to stick with this odered a whole bunch of parts for it like oem type r front clip hopefuly all goes well also doing the whole interior its got that nasty tan interior, right now it has the 00 front but I personaly dont like the US front.

 

sorry took so long to write back 3 months later and im finaly done with all the suspension problems.


the rear controls arm wasent my problem just like someone here sead they looked bent but thats just how they are but i did have bad bushing so i replaced them with some after market ones.... I bought some ebays ones like always had a lil customising to make it work
only where the sway bar sits


this is how my tires were after riding like this


but after i fixed that i still had problems after a while i started hearing some noise coming from my pasenger side wheel turned out to be my spindle was junk posibly from that front control arm being bent so i took the whole suspension out from that side and replaced it also replaced the driver side lca.

took it to a shop to get it aligned and after a couple of minutes i was told that my trailing arm bushing was bad also that was the whole reason why it did the swinging in the snow
so replaced that and now its all good finaly.