Re: power steering on sciroccos

[Mark Hausler <mk1scirocco@yahoo.com>]

--- Wayne Cressman <WCressman@csi.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure about the argument here.  Power
> steering is not a solution to
> torque steer.  Torque-steer is the tendency to pull
> in the direction of the
> drive wheel that is receiving power, rather than
> going the direction the
> driver is trying to steer.   Power steering may make
> it easier to correct
> for torque-steer but it doesn't solve the underlying
> problem.  Even today,
> cars are being launched (with power steering I may
> add) that have bad
> torque-steer problems.  The just replaced Alfa 156
> had such a problem, as
> does the Saab 9.5 Viggen, and some have suggested
> that the current Jetta VR6
> has it as well.  The more powerful the car, the more
> difficult it is for
> suspension engineers to dial out torque steer
> (thought not impossible).  Our
> old 'roccos may also suffer more from torque steer
> if their suspensions are
> misaligned or if the tyre pressures are wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> Wayne Cressman
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Peele <type53@yahoo.com>
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:30 AM
> Subject: Re: power steering on sciroccos
> 
> 
> >
> >> Call me wishy washy but you just changed my mind.
> I
> >> forgot about torque steer
> >> and how much I dread it! Man, I almost killed my
> >> Jetta and myself at least
> >> once a month when I was driving it regularly due
> to
> >> torque steer. I now prefer
> >> power steering for that reason alone!
> >>
> >> -Marc
> >
> >To each his own . . .
> >
> >In 22 years of driving non-PS Sciroccos, I've never
> had a "problem"
> >with torque steer . . .
> >
> >===
> >Mark Peele
> >1981 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
> >Then there's Kristen's '78 Scirocco
> >http://home.t-online.de/home/Scirocco2/mark.htm
> >Direct Mail: SCIROCCO_GTX@YAHOO.COM
> >__________________________________________________


Put in a Quafe. No torque steer at all on my 2.0 and
manual rack.



===
mark hausler
'81 scirocco s
'94 toyo 4x4
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