Anyone have such issues on a 2010. Mine has about 3,000 miles on it and I feel a little something in the steering wheel.
thats called steering feedback. i know you're probably not used to it but they've done that with all the mustangs now. its come standard on great handling cars for a long time and finally made its way into the mustang world.
One bad thing with having great feedback is the fact you can feel EVERYTHING. If the wheels are a tiny bit off balance, you know it and can even feel if you drop a valve cap!!! lol
Back in 2004 I had a beautiful Jaguar XK8, and also got so much feedback that I actually had the wheels balanced on the hub. AMAZING difference.
any people wonder why ford hasnt' built great handling mustangs before. the american public wants cheap MSRP, great handling, and zero trade off in ride comfort.
you just CANT have a car that gives great feedback and yet keeps you disconnected from the road. it just aint happening for this price range if at all.
Sounds to me like a driver issue. The roads in North Jersey are garbage. Ever consider that? Ford finally engineers a car that has amazing steering response and people are now bitching. Trade the car in and go for the taurus instead, thats clearly what you belong in. You cant fix what isnt broken, you either want a performance car or you dont, but the techs arent gonna try and engineer your car to your specifications. Thats how ford offers it. Either ford will determine there is infact a problem with it or they wont. But thanks to you, they will probably make the steering have no feel at all and super high assist. A shimmy is a legitimate complaint when you feel a legitimate vibration through the steering wheel at a moderate to highway and beyond speed WITH YOUR HANDS ON THE DAMN WHEEL. The wheel moving without your hands on it is the tires going over all the variances in road surface. Is that, too hard to understand? If you have someone road force balance, try different wheels, drive different cars and you still see the same "issue" the problem is with you. I just test drove one of these cars today and i noticed NOTHING other then spectacular performance at an amazing price. Problem that comes when Ford ups the ante the way they did with this car is you also get douche customers along with it. Enjoy the M3 crushing performance or trade the damn car in
Yes threads like this really do tick me off. As a tech we bust our ass to fix cars that are legitmately not right, and whining customers like this that have the car looked at by 500 people are nothing but a PITA.
So the fact that Ford issued a TSB on the 2011 GT-500 EPAS system for the exact issue I am having with my GT means nothing I guess.
What about all the other people with 2011 with the same issue? I guess there is something wrong with all of those drivers too.
Car is at the dealer.
The shop foreman said they are going to check all the tires and wheels plus the axles for runout.
Since the 4th tire balancing the car is now smooth up until 90mph. At 90+ there is still vibration.
The shop foreman did say that Pirellis are crap tires.
My salesman did come through for me and got them to check all these things under warranty with out "duplicating" the issue first.
Did you not put a different set of tires on this car and still have the same problem?UPDATE - just got a call from service and they said one of the wheels is bent, the one that needed 3oz to balance out, which is not the one the tire shop said was warped.
They have ordered a new wheel under warranty and will have it tomorrow so I get to drive the Ford Focus loaner another day.
At least this proves I am not a nut case and there was something wrong with the car this whole time.
Now the question is will it fix the issue?
Did you not put a different set of tires on this car and still have the same problem?
UPDATE - NOT FIXED - WORSE
Per the workorder they replaced RF wheel. Balanced all four tires, checked suspension for looseness and checked rotors for runout.
Shimmy is even worse than before when it SPORT mode even at 60mph and THEY MOUNTED THE TIRE BACKWARDS ON THE NEW WHEEL in now says INSIDE on the outside and looks like crap.
Service was closed when I picked up the car so now it will have to wait until morning to call them and then bring it back. I cannot stand this much longer.
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