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Ok, I'll do my best to explain this... I've had my Fiesta for a week now and replaced the tires this weekend. Even prior to that I had this issue.

Is this torque steer or something more serious? When I accelerate harder, the steering wheel gets squirrelly. Kind of jumps around. The alignment was checked and is fine, and as I said it has new tires. Now, I've never had a car over 150hp so is that the issue? It's not a huge deal but want to make sure there isn't something more at play here. The car has 47k miles.
 


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Ok, I'll do my best to explain this... I've had my Fiesta for a week now and replaced the tires this weekend. Even prior to that I had this issue.

Is this torque steer or something more serious? When I accelerate harder, the steering wheel gets squirrelly. Kind of jumps around. The alignment was checked and is fine, and as I said it has new tires. Now, I've never had a car over 150hp so is that the issue? It's not a huge deal but want to make sure there isn't something more at play here. The car has 47k miles.
Torque steer.
 


CanadianGuy

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With traction control on is the Ecu cutting power? This would happen if a wheel slips. Personially I think it's more the rmm as with the stock the wheels easily kick up when trying to get power to the ground. There are a few videos about the affect kicking around.
 


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After replacing my factory RMM with a new one from cp-e, I haven't noticed any decrease in T-S. It's never been bad IMO. Yeah it's there, but no more worse than what you have to do with the steering wheel on a high HP RWD.
 


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I've never heard it claimed that the aftermarket RMMs reduced torque steer at all, wheel hop yes, but not torque steer. [dunno]
 


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Is the RMM a pretty easy install I could do without a lift and with hand tools?
 


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Thread Starter #16
Lift = 2 post or 4 post and the really big single post lifts [emoji106]
Oh ok so you do. Good, just making sure because your comment was odd. I never implied I didn't want to jack the car up. I just don't own a hydraulic (or otherwise) lift. Fun fact I almost worked at Bendpack/Ranger about 8 years ago.
 


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Oh ok so you do. Good, just making sure because your comment was odd. I never implied I didn't want to jack the car up. I just don't own a hydraulic (or otherwise) lift. Fun fact I almost worked at Bendpack/Ranger about 8 years ago.
Yeah, I was around when lifts were invented.
 




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