Steering help
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Mountain Pass
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Steering help
Hey y'all,
im hoping you could help me out. I got a 2017 f350, that at mostly highway speeds the steering tends to get real sloppy. If I stop and wiggle the wheel, the steering feels tight, but when I’m at highway speeds, i can get a good swoosh side to side on the wheel and it even causes the service advancetrac light to come on. Any help is greatly appreciated.
im hoping you could help me out. I got a 2017 f350, that at mostly highway speeds the steering tends to get real sloppy. If I stop and wiggle the wheel, the steering feels tight, but when I’m at highway speeds, i can get a good swoosh side to side on the wheel and it even causes the service advancetrac light to come on. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Play and dead zone, at least to me, are the same, meaning an area in the steering that is non responsive. You turn the steering wheel and there is no movement at the wheels.
Do you have adaptive steering?
Do you have adaptive steering?
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Mountain Pass
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no i do not have adaptive cruise
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He is asking if you have adaptive steering, which adjusts magnitude of power assist based on speed.
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Adaptive steering changes the steering ratio based on speed. It does not adjust the magnitude of power assist. I mention this in case the OP's truck has adaptive steering.
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Mountain Pass
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i don’t have adaptive steering
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Start with the cheap/easy stuff first. Check tire wear and pressure also rotate to rear to see if any change. As suggested any loose front suspension components, ball joints as well, jack up the front and see if wheels wobble from side to side. If nothing turns up with the above bring to a good alignment shop one that does big trucks not small cars. Tell them your issue they should be able to help.
Good luck…
Mike
Good luck…
Mike
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I’m going to check with a pry bar, that’s a good suggestion thanks. So far it’s been at 2 different shops and they keep focusing on the advancetrac system and they’re telling me the front end looks good and it’s just something with the system itself… then i gave in and bought it to 2 different ford dealers. Both of them left it sitting in their lot untouched for over a week meanwhile i had an “appointment”. If i can’t figure this out im honestly thinking of going back to ram/ Cummins. Customer service with ford so far really hasn’t been a pleasant experience.
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I’m going to check with a pry bar, that’s a good suggestion thanks. So far it’s been at 2 different shops and they keep focusing on the advancetrac system and they’re telling me the front end looks good and it’s just something with the system itself… then i gave in and bought it to 2 different ford dealers. Both of them left it sitting in their lot untouched for over a week meanwhile i had an “appointment”. If i can’t figure this out im honestly thinking of going back to ram/ Cummins. Customer service with ford so far really hasn’t been a pleasant experience.