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2000 S40 has been aligned 4 times in last year and a half. Went through a set of tires in only 13K miles because car is not running straight... Car was bought with 47K miles as a certified pre-owned Volvo vehicle from Don Beyer Volvo in Falls Church, VA. While traveling any speed on a flat straightaway, if you release your hands from the wheel for a few seconds, the car will drift/pull off to the left. This necessitates holding the wheel with a stiff arm death-grip while driving down the road in order to keep the vehicle moving in one direction. Also, if you turn the wheel 15 degrees to the left in say a parking lot while going 10 mph and momentarily release the steering wheel, the wheel stays turned in place and the car keeps turning. Conversely, if you turn the wheel 15 degrees to the right while going 10 mph and then let go of the wheel, the wheel snaps back to the center and then the car begins to drift to the left again. What gives here? We've had the Falls Churchg Volvo dealership align the car recently and even took it back to them... even test drove it with their technician who says there's nothing wrong with it and told us we shouldn't take our hands off the wheel while driving! He postured that the road surface causes the car to drift to the left!!! That was it, they adjusted a toe setting on the right tire and sent us on our way without a solution. I'm extremely unhappy at this point. I'm not a child and don't like being treated like one! It was their 4th and final chance to listen to me and try to solve this problem. I'm taking the car to another Volvo dealership in the same Don Beyer Automotive Group to try and get some resolution tomorrow morning. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!!! Thank you in advance for your help!!!!
Oh, and if the dealer can't fix this problem tomorrow, I'm buying a new Corolla on Saturday. I've sunk a lot of money into this car it will pain me to lose it... it's fun to drive and fun to look at, but on the whole, I don't think that Volvo's are what they used to be and they no longer possess what their historical reputation is built upon. My honest feeling is that this car is a real POS.
Volvo S40 Steering Problem Topic is solved
I have a similar problem, though my tires have lasted just fine. If you stop the car and turn it all the way to the other side of the drift side, it'll either go straight or start drifting the other way. I was told it might be a stuck valve in the rack. See my post below for response re: weird steering problem. I'm living with it for now.
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It seems to be a very common problem for the S40 steering rack to go bad long before it should. (just like brakes and rotors). It happened to me at 51,000 miles and the dealer reluctantly took care of it under warranty.
They found it was much easier to replace it than to deal with my wife.
For the lucky folks, it self-destructs before the warranty is up.
Sounds like you're not of of them. Roughly $1400 US to replace.
The Corolla is sounding better and better. I have a Nissan 240SX with 220,000 miles and the steering rack is as tight as when I bought the car and nothing has been replaced except for brakes every 40,000 and oil every 4,000 miles.
They found it was much easier to replace it than to deal with my wife.
For the lucky folks, it self-destructs before the warranty is up.
Sounds like you're not of of them. Roughly $1400 US to replace.
The Corolla is sounding better and better. I have a Nissan 240SX with 220,000 miles and the steering rack is as tight as when I bought the car and nothing has been replaced except for brakes every 40,000 and oil every 4,000 miles.
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