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Steering feeling wooly

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Have recently changed my wheels for 17 inch Porsche rims my steering feels to wander/feels wooly a lot more and have thought i might change to the poly bushes from Brickwerks has any one got first hand experience and are they an improvement in feel worthwhile over standard new rubber bushes ?

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Sounds like you bus is "tramlining" due to the wide/low profile rubber.
Polybushes wont fix it, you need the wheel alignment sorting.

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its always felt a little wooly just seams worse now possibly a bit of both?

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Do the rack bushes first. The originals are very soft, they almost fall out IME.

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Check the condition of the droplinks while you're under there too.
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