Bad steering

[DANNY G]

I have just bought my first surf and hit a curb after a couple of weeks.
Since then I have had a few steering problems. I have had the tracking and balancing done and they were both ok. The problems are:

Steering wheel shaking
Pulling to the left which is worse when moving forwards slowly, and when I put it in reverse the steering turns the opposite way.

Can anybody help or recommend a garage near chester as I am driving to France in it next week?

Thanks

[Tiger]

At a gues if you have only hit a kurb i would put money on it being the traking. and get a second opinion, was the garage reputable. I had a similar problem recently and traked it up myself with a long piece of 6"x2" now it's purfect.

Or buckled wheel or balancing all would have been picked up by a decent garage

[DANNY G]

It was checked at my local ATS which are normally pretty good.
I have read similar problems about the idler arm or bushes would these cause the same problem?

[cataclysm]

That sounds pretty bad. Could just be a jammed brake caliper (surfs have to be kerbed pretty amazingly badly to do major damage). But a worn-out steering box could make for *similar* symptoms.

[Tiger]

Could do but i would have thought you would have had signs before, if you only clipped a curb can't be much, did you see them check over the surf?

[DANNY G]

Yeah I was there whilst they done it.
I have just been in it now and it does not pull to the side when I accellerate quickly and it is a lot worse when I reverse as the steering wheel turned a full revolution within about 10 metres??

[Albannach]

You've gubbed a tyre? Buckled tyres always show up as a wobble when moving slowly.

Swap the front you kerbed with one of the rears or the spare, see what happens.

[Albannach]

And, in the interests of increasing my post count...

A buckled tyre may not show when the wheels are balanced and almost never noticed when the whels are aligned.

Balancing is done rotationally (longitudinally), buckled tyres are acting latitudinally.

[DANNY G]

I will give it a try.
Thanks for all posts

[DANNY G]

Just changed the front wheel and it seems to have done the trick.
Thanks all.

[andycook]

i would get that tyre checked over - you dont want it to blow-out at speed!