Steering Wheel Angle

[asm51]

My Golf has just had its first service at only 2500 miles. I mentioned at the time that when driving straight ahead the steering wheel seemed to be offset by about 5 degrees anti-clockwise. The dealers agreed it was and say they removed and reset the steering wheel itself. Although this appeared to correct the situation I have now done another 500 miles and the wheel again appears to be offset by the same amount in the same direction. It is difficult to find a dead straight bit of road with minimal camber to test this but I'm convinced it is so. I have never kerbed the car and the wear on the front tyres appears totally even. Anybody know what's going on?

2009 Golf GT 160, Steel Grey, Luxury Pack, Park Assist.

[percymon]

Well the only thing thats going to move the wheel in that way is suspension movement or missing 'teeth' on the spline that the wheel fits onto. The latter is highly unlikely as i've never known one move on any car of any age.

Do you have lots of speed humps in your area ? - do you straddle the block type humps with the angled edges ? If so you are spreading the wheels everytime you negotiate a hump in this manner and could well be knocking your suspension out of alignment again.

[asm51]

Do you have lots of speed humps in your area ? - do you straddle the block type humps with the angled edges ? If so you are spreading the wheels everytime you negotiate a hump in this manner and could well be knocking your suspension out of alignment again.

There are some speed humps but I do try not to straddle them.

[Steve_D]

I'd recommend that you get the wheel alignment checked - you could have movement/damage on one side which will give the effect you mention. Failing that, the tracking/alignment could be correct but may need 'moving across' slightly. Still a mystery how it has gone out in the first place - you normally get that symptom when you replace a ball joint/wishbone/track rod end on one side and don't reset the alignment.