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Jeep Wrangler JK
JK General Discussion
2017 Rubicon 2-door has sloppy steering and feels like fishtailing
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<blockquote data-quote="Duster" data-source="post: 460379" data-attributes="member: 20812"><p>Your original post indicates a serious concern about controlling the jeep at higher speeds. Among other observables, you mention around two inches of play in the steering wheel. That two inches of play also translates to two inches of no sense of what the front wheels are doing. Irregularities in the road surface, gusts of wind, blasts of air from the slip streams of passing cars will all translate in shifts in direction that you will not feel until they become visible to your eye. Any distraction inside the car, and that includes otherwise appropriate actions like checking the mirrors, will magnify that effect by prolonging the time between the events cause, and when you become aware of it. If that play has not been corrected, start there. The "fishtailing" feeling is due to feed back as you correct the course the vehicle is following. I've driven 80 to the Bay Area from Sacramento many times in two different JKUs as well as many other vehicles, and what you are describing is not normal in any vehicle, let alone a Wrangler.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duster, post: 460379, member: 20812"] Your original post indicates a serious concern about controlling the jeep at higher speeds. Among other observables, you mention around two inches of play in the steering wheel. That two inches of play also translates to two inches of no sense of what the front wheels are doing. Irregularities in the road surface, gusts of wind, blasts of air from the slip streams of passing cars will all translate in shifts in direction that you will not feel until they become visible to your eye. Any distraction inside the car, and that includes otherwise appropriate actions like checking the mirrors, will magnify that effect by prolonging the time between the events cause, and when you become aware of it. If that play has not been corrected, start there. The "fishtailing" feeling is due to feed back as you correct the course the vehicle is following. I've driven 80 to the Bay Area from Sacramento many times in two different JKUs as well as many other vehicles, and what you are describing is not normal in any vehicle, let alone a Wrangler. [/QUOTE]
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Jeep Wrangler JK
JK General Discussion
2017 Rubicon 2-door has sloppy steering and feels like fishtailing
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