Hi, hope you are all well.
I’ve just got my cupra ateca a few weeks back 300 miles I’ve done so far and want to check if anyone has the same “problems” as I do..
Firstly, the steering wheel is not dead on centre, when it is straight the car is headed right ever so slightly, now I don’t know if they set it up this way to counter camber on our roads off to the left but it also links into the second problem for me..
The car is very unstable on the motorway. I’ve had SUVs before albeit bigger ones but they’ve always been stable at speed, this is anything but stable which I would expect for a 1700 odd kg car even with the terrible drag. It veers around as if there is 100mph winds constantly, especially between 70-90 it’s very noticeable. Does yours have this? Are they just terrible on the motorway? It almost feels dangerous you constantly have to counter just to go in a straight line, below 70 is fine but anything above is just off the charts.
How do yours perform, and are your steering wheels “straight”?
(have already booked for geometry alignment at suspension secrets due to this, it feels like it’s badly out of tolerance and is quite annoying)
Going to Germany in 2 weeks and there’s no way I’d drive this at double our speed limits the way it is, I don’t even think you could do at the minute.
Thanks in advance
I’ve just got my cupra ateca a few weeks back 300 miles I’ve done so far and want to check if anyone has the same “problems” as I do..
Firstly, the steering wheel is not dead on centre, when it is straight the car is headed right ever so slightly, now I don’t know if they set it up this way to counter camber on our roads off to the left but it also links into the second problem for me..
The car is very unstable on the motorway. I’ve had SUVs before albeit bigger ones but they’ve always been stable at speed, this is anything but stable which I would expect for a 1700 odd kg car even with the terrible drag. It veers around as if there is 100mph winds constantly, especially between 70-90 it’s very noticeable. Does yours have this? Are they just terrible on the motorway? It almost feels dangerous you constantly have to counter just to go in a straight line, below 70 is fine but anything above is just off the charts.
How do yours perform, and are your steering wheels “straight”?
(have already booked for geometry alignment at suspension secrets due to this, it feels like it’s badly out of tolerance and is quite annoying)
Going to Germany in 2 weeks and there’s no way I’d drive this at double our speed limits the way it is, I don’t even think you could do at the minute.
Thanks in advance