Pulling to the left on 2.7t allroad

[blackie781]

Hey,

Had a problem on the allroad for a little while now (2.7BiTurbo 2001). Every time I drive along the road the steering wheel is constantly about 1/16 turn to the left. If I hold the wheel straight the car goes to the right. If I let go of the wheel it steers itself round to the left quite badly!

I have had the tracking done three times in the past 3 weeks, (twice since saturday!) checked all the tyre pressures, swapped the front wheels over, I have changed all the upper track control arms, both front lower track control arms, both track rod ends and both anti-roll bar drop links.

The things that are wrong with the car, N/S/R caliper sticking, and very quiet ticking/knocking from the front (I think CV joints) only on extreme locks when pulling away from a standing start.

Am I right in thinking that a sticky rear caliper would cause the car to pull to that side? If so, would this still have the same effect on a quattro?

[JimTraining]

Hello, just had a recon o/s rear brake caliper fitted and it fixed the same problem. Rear pads were very ready for changing, piston wouldn't budge / wind back in. Dust seal had long since failed and corroded the piston, I had to slam on the brakes not long after I had the car and noticed a significant pull to the right, after a few miles it was sorted. Quick easy check above and beyond all the common sense stuff is a infrared thermometer (£30 max on ebay, very useful) , point it at N/S and O/S discs after a journey.

Pulling was intermittent as as per your comment I was surprised at the amount of pulling, nearly to skid steer standards. Caliper was £220 I think as a service exchange (fitted) and as I was in a rush, had no tools and needed the car back, it had to do.

Cheers,

[JimTraining]

"The things that are wrong with the car, N/S/R caliper sticking, and very quiet ticking/knocking from the front (I think CV joints) only on extreme locks when pulling away from a standing start."

Guy who fitted the caliper is an Audi nut and I have the same CV type noise on T junction setting off, he advised that the splines are worth lubricating, something along the lines of backing off the splined shaft retaining bolts and getting a bit of lubrication in there. I will get that defined a bit clearer or rely on one of our techy types to reply with appropriate levels of pedantry and distain

[blackie781]

Gents thankyou for your help, Just ordered 2 rear calipers on ebay 64 quid each with 15 pound back each on return of my units, not bad I thought! I will lube up the splines in the front hubs when I change the rear calipers, and I will post up here to let you know if it sorts the noise out from the front.