Sounds like they got the toe-in adjustment wrong. Not enough toe-in
will make the car darty. Easy to check anyway...
Tony
At 01:09 PM 6/27/2016, Pat Fischer wrote:
>Hello, Listers. Hoping for your expertise here.
>
>Took the 250 to a local shop for some small body repair and new
>tires. Handling of the car has always been superb with
>wider-than-stock wheels and low profile tires, but the two of the
>tires were 15 years old, so a rubber update was needed. The shop
>also told me that the car also needed a new steering rack and tie
>rod ends. They did this, set alignment and lubed the front end.
>
>First getting the car back, the car vibrated at 70 on the highway.
>Shop says they've fixed that with re-balancing the tires. (I haven't
>driven it yet.)
>
>Next, the car feels skittish, jittery at 50-60 mph, and you have to
>keep correcting with steering to keep it straight in its lane.
>You'll be driving along just fine and then Whoops! there is goes
>twitching left a bit. It doesn't feel stuck to the road as before
>this work was done. Here's the question: the shop tells us that this
>is normal after replacing the steering rack, that "the car is more
>responsive," in their words, and has "a more immediate feel to it,"
>but they also reference this as "twitchy-ness."
>
>What should expectations be upon replacing steering rack and tie-rod ends?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Pat Fischer
>
>
>
>
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