brought my car back home from the shop today, its been about 5 months since ive driven it personally since its been worked on non stop since then, well on the way home i had to drive on the highway for a good hour, while driving, i noticed a really bad wiggle in the steering wheel that kept forcing the car to pull to the left, now i know the alignment is off, but this wasnt just alignment, this was like something was physically pulling the car in that direction, in fact twice it actually caused me to drift into the left lane where i had to fight the wheel to go to the right.

I planned on redoing the whole suspension in the spring time but im not sure what is causing this and if it is something very serious that i should be looking at much sooner. Only issue i have is its cold, and were getting a foot of snow tonight, fortunately i wont have to drive it much at all, but i still would like to get some suggestions as to what could be causing this, and im hoping its not the rack and pinion.

 

check your left front brake caliper, i had the same issue with my teg whenever it gets really hot it would push the brake pads together and make your wheel jerk left/right depends on what side it is bad.

 

I had the same problem before and it ended up being the cv axle.

 

that would be from bad brake fluid, brake fluid absorbs moisture over time, unless you have dot5 fluid, its possible the moisture is expanding when it gets hot and pushing in the pads, im already set to change the whole brake system out with valvoline synthetic dot3/4 fluid anyway, cv axles LOOKED fine, but id have to check them physically. Other then that there was no tears in the boots or anything.

 

could be a seperated belt in that left tire too. mine has a seperated belt and u can see the bubble in the inner sidewall of the tire. it shakes at high speeds (like on the interstate), pulls to the left, and makes road noise as well. the easiest way to figure out if its a tire is if u can hear the road noise usually. check it out, could be a possible problem

 

tire is fine, they are brand new toyos in the front, and no bulges or anything, no balance issues either, pretty sure this is suspension related

 

ok, just wanted to throw it out there as a possible option. id look into replacing the driver side axle, just to see if it makes a diff.