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Old 10-16-2014, 10:46 AM   #21
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Yes everything was installed correctly, I replaced calipers, struts, struts mounts, springs, tie rods, ball joints, and I think what it's called the "sway bar links"?. Everything was installed by my professional mechanic.
I noticed a few more things today, so as stated above, the car pulls to the left and steering wheel twitches to the right when I apply bakes, but when I accelerate hard, as soon as I let off the gas pedal, to car pulls to the right, so I'm thinking it's probably my right caliper is stuck closed a bit?
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Old 10-19-2014, 06:14 PM   #22
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Yes everything was installed correctly, I replaced calipers, struts, struts mounts, springs, tie rods, ball joints, and I think what it's called the "sway bar links"?. Everything was installed by my professional mechanic.
I noticed a few more things today, so as stated above, the car pulls to the left and steering wheel twitches to the right when I apply bakes, but when I accelerate hard, as soon as I let off the gas pedal, to car pulls to the right, so I'm thinking it's probably my right caliper is stuck closed a bit?
You might try completely flushing your brake fluid. Also, you can check the front rotor temperatures after driving the car to see if they are roughly the same. I had a front caliper lock up and melt my stainless steel brake line and take out the vehicle speed sensor and caliper. The problem was the valve side of the abs unit was not releasing the pressure. It was a big bucks part and a pain to replace. Good thing i was close to the shop where i work on my car as everything on that corner of the car got superhot. I didn't think it could be the abs unit but the brakes would not work right until i changed that.
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Old 10-19-2014, 10:33 PM   #23
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Thank you all for your help, it turned out to be a bad control arm and bad ball joint, unfortunately one of the kyb gr2 struts it's ALREADY leaking oil, and their only. A few months old, watta b!tch, other than that it needs to be aligned again but the rest it's fixed....
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:11 AM   #24
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I kinda thought it was more likely suspension based on your description of what it was doing. Going one way under acceleration and the other way under braking. Braking would have dragged on one side all the time. Bad suspension arm would move back and forth though.
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:46 PM   #25
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Thank you all for your help, it turned out to be a bad control arm and bad ball joint, unfortunately one of the kyb gr2 struts it's ALREADY leaking oil, and their only. A few months old, watta b!tch, other than that it needs to be aligned again but the rest it's fixed....
Glad you figured it out, especially before winter.
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