Car not driving straight after hard cornering

[socalvn]

All right. My 22 GT line rear wheel drive lowered on coilovers and mega racing control arms was driving perfect hands-free down the road every day and I let loose around one corner then the car felt squirrely and when I was done it doesn't drive straight anymore pulls hard left and the steering wheel is to the right. Put it up on jack stands twice and had the wheels off and Inspected everything. Can't find anything wrong. Is it possible for the subframe to move?

 

[Thomby]

What do you mean by "let loose around one corner"? Just a really hard turn at speed, or did you slide, spin out, hit something...?

If you're pulling left even while steering right, and there are no obviously damaged suspension components, I'd start out with the wheels up and steering wheel centered, and check to see if both tires are straight and whether either has side to side play. Then turn the wheel full lock to each side and check the same.

If you still can't find anything, check for wheel orientation and play in the rears, then probably time for an alignment.

 

[socalvn]

What do you mean by "let loose around one corner"? Just a really hard turn at speed, or did you slide, spin out, hit something...?

If you're pulling left even while steering right, and there are no obviously damaged suspension components, I'd start out with the wheels up and steering wheel centered, and check to see if both tires are straight and whether either has side to side play. Then turn the wheel full lock to each side and check the same.

If you still can't find anything, check for wheel orientation and play in the rears, then probably time for an alignment.

I broke traction on the corner under fairly hard acceleration I hit nothing. Never curbed it. No potholes. It was just squirrely at the end of that corner. My steering wheel is about a inch to the right and the car pulls to the left fairly hard. I just had it aligned a couple weeks before this driving hands-free down the road.
Kind of shocking that it changed behavior this quick just with one move. Like I said I've looked at it twice up on Jack stands torqued every bolt looked for anything abnormal. Inspected my coilovers twice. The top hat on them springs everything's just solid. There's no noises when driving the car.

 

[JSolo]

With the front off the ground, steering wheel straight, which way are the wheels actually pointing?

 

[Volfy]

Your suspension was likely knocked out of alignment. That happened to me at the track day October last year. I went a bit too wide on one corner and clipped the shoulder bump. The steering wheel was knocked off center. I finished the rest of the sessions and drover some 280 miles home. The rear camber eccentric bolts were also pulled wide, so both rear wheels ended up over 3 degs negative. Got an alignment redone, and everything was put back to spec. This time, I rechecked torque on every single suspension bolt myself. That was more than a yr ago. No issues since.

If you gonna play with suspension on your car - especially if you track it - a lifetime alignment is a MUST.

 

[socalvn]

With the front off the ground, steering wheel straight, which way are the wheels actually pointing?

It's really hard to tell straight I think tryed looking at that a couple of times

 

[Thomby]

If they're not visibly crooked, and you've also checked the rears, the pull could come from another alignment dimension, like camber mentioned above, or caster (how far the tire contact point is in front of the suspension mounting point, affects tracking). So probably need to take it for an alignment.

 

[Ozstung]

You can get a factory steering reset from Kia like i did. It will centre the steering wheel.