chunkd

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Just noticed today that my steering wheel is slightly crooked!!! Now that I notice it, it is really bothering me.

That said on a straight road and the car going straight the steering wheel is off center to the right / slightly . The car only has 4000km on it so I wanted to see if all other ralliart's are the same or should I bring it in for an alignment?

Also, another quick ? , one of my co-workers noticed that there was white smoke coming out my exhaust when (I'm guess when my turbo kicks in) is this normal? It was early this morning and only drove about 10mins when he noticed this.

Thanks,

chunkd

initial_d2k

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alignment issue? I have similar thing with me ... and more noticeable when wider tires

and the white smoke ... i have no prob? manufacture defect with seal?
You should take a trip to the stealership (IF) you can exactly reproduce the above problems..

SyZyGy1394

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lol that would drive me nuts!

bulhas

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white smoke out of exhaust when the turbo kicks in is not a good sign, when my cobalts turbo blew it was white smoke everywhere

jan_ralliart

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usually when you see lots of white smoke coming from the exhaust, it means turbo s leaking oil to exhaust~

n the steering wheel problem, it happen on my car too...

Skym

Take it in and tell them that the steering is tilted. I told the dealer and fixed it right away

Evo10HKS

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take it to the dealer and let them look at it.

mikesim

1: could be an alignment issue. factory settings have a pretty broad tolerance; almost +-0.5 degrees for camber and +-0.5 for total toe in for some vehicles.

2: white smoke could be raw fuel too. get on it on a cold morning and your AFR's are in the low 10's you'll see it for sure. oil leaking from turbo would be bluish white smoke.

BigGreenMachine

Have had lots of alignment issues. But the roads here bash the cars to no end...

bacquerel

mine's tilted to the right like 10 degrees coz i went up a curb pretty fast! another 1000 kms till my next service so i'm holding up, gonna do rotaz and alignment as well.

btw does anyone know if i change the BOV void the warranty or not??

xdmitrix

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when I had my RA, my wheel was tilted 10 degrees too, and I had over 3 alignments done on it from different places.

it was especially noticeable on highways. I know we have thin/stiff tires so maybe part of it is because it's noticeable on roads where there is a slight curvature.

chunkd

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Taking it in on monday see what happens. They will probably do an alignment and charge me like 150 bux or something stupid.

I just got the seat replaced due to a flaw in the pattern .