Botus
Senior Member
cars should have the same geometry side to side when on a lock... very rarely looked in to now... but sounds to me that this is what the guy was trying when he first played and you said if felt correct / the best it had afterwards.
he could have been trying to set it the same side to side, but this (as you found) could mean the steering wheel centre is off whack. In the old days you just moved the wheel on the column to sort it. But these days with airbags and ESP there more fun to be had. With most "clock springs" on Merc not adjustable they come set right in the box and you fit as is to the column and that's correct. So I get why he changed back after the "test" (on some fords you can't even move the wheel on the column, as its not splined and the ESP is set in the middle using software).
One of the recent Merc 4 x 4 is a disaster with incorrect geometry for RHD cars, (I can never remember if GLA or GLC) and the solution was to put winter tyres on so they complained less.... high tech engineering (it came about after they'd bodged up the suspension as they not correctly considered designing the body shell to accommodate LHD or RHD steering position). Not heard this on other models and if its not a 4 x 4, then even less likely to be an issue on yours
there was another guy with an AMG spec car complaining just recently - run flat tyres and silly sized alloys will make it more susceptible to fun like this.
he could have been trying to set it the same side to side, but this (as you found) could mean the steering wheel centre is off whack. In the old days you just moved the wheel on the column to sort it. But these days with airbags and ESP there more fun to be had. With most "clock springs" on Merc not adjustable they come set right in the box and you fit as is to the column and that's correct. So I get why he changed back after the "test" (on some fords you can't even move the wheel on the column, as its not splined and the ESP is set in the middle using software).
One of the recent Merc 4 x 4 is a disaster with incorrect geometry for RHD cars, (I can never remember if GLA or GLC) and the solution was to put winter tyres on so they complained less.... high tech engineering (it came about after they'd bodged up the suspension as they not correctly considered designing the body shell to accommodate LHD or RHD steering position). Not heard this on other models and if its not a 4 x 4, then even less likely to be an issue on yours
there was another guy with an AMG spec car complaining just recently - run flat tyres and silly sized alloys will make it more susceptible to fun like this.
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