Audi SQ5 Intermittent Wandering Steering
Recently at Auto Studio, an Audi SQ5 was brought in for a service after the customer experienced that the vehicle had intermittent wandering.
Symptoms:
- Poor vehicle tracking
What can cause a vehicle to have Intermittent wondering?
Worn steering rack, tie rod ends, and/or control arm bushes.
How to fix a car with Intermittent wandering?
After diagnosis, it was found that the lower control arm bushes and caster bushes were worn out and needed to be replaced. Following this, a wheel alignment was also completed.
Figure 1 shows the front control arm bush removed and Figure 2 shows the tools required to install the bushes.