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speedyspaghetti · 12-10-2017, 09:40 PM

Hey guys - I've been trying to solve a problem with my steering feeling loose / sloppy. I tried rotating my tires today to see if that would do anything. I noticed two things:

A: My front sway bar seems to move in the bushings with just pulling/pushing on it. Should it be doing this? Here's a video -
you can see it best at the 10 second mark.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mh1Rga_NM"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mh1Rga_NM[/ame]

B: After rotating the tires and putting everything back on, I noticed that my rear end feels super loose. The tires spin on 90 degree turns / it feels wobbly. I made sure to torque the lug nuts down to snug before lowering in the car and then torquing them to 100 ft/lbs after the car was on the ground. Did I possibly mess something up? Could I have messed up the alignment?

Thanks everyone.

12-10-2017, 09:40 PM	#1
speedyspaghetti Member Join Date: Nov 2017 Drives: 2016 FR-S Location: Los Gatos, CA Posts: 30 Thanks: 27 Thanked 11 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Should my front sway bar move like this? Hey guys - I've been trying to solve a problem with my steering feeling loose / sloppy. I tried rotating my tires today to see if that would do anything. I noticed two things: A: My front sway bar seems to move in the bushings with just pulling/pushing on it. Should it be doing this? Here's a video - you can see it best at the 10 second mark. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mh1Rga_NM"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mh1Rga_NM[/ame] B: After rotating the tires and putting everything back on, I noticed that my rear end feels super loose. The tires spin on 90 degree turns / it feels wobbly. I made sure to torque the lug nuts down to snug before lowering in the car and then torquing them to 100 ft/lbs after the car was on the ground. Did I possibly mess something up? Could I have messed up the alignment? Thanks everyone. Last edited by speedyspaghetti; 12-10-2017 at 09:54 PM.