2011 Leaf with Muxsan 17.6kWh battery, curt tow hitch fitted for bikes or buzz rack P10
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Recently I had a knocking noise coming from the passenger side when I applied full right steering lock and turning a corner. I took it to my local (non-Nissan) garage for replace where they diagnosed a broken top strut mount and also replaced that and the large plastic bearing.
When I got the car back I noticed after taking it on the motorway that when traveling accelerating from 60 to 70mph a large amount of torque steer and then similarly a negative torque steer effect when the regen was applied when I came off the accelerator.
The car was returned to my local garage who again checked all the steering and the alignment. They again replaced the top bearing as it was making noise again with a second new bearing which stopped that noise. The torque steer is still very bad.
I have taken it to Nissan Westway in Altrincham UK and they have done their preliminary first hour of diagnostics but couldn't isolate the issue. Their first suggestion is to get the 4 wheel tracking alignment done and see whether that solves the issue. I do not have confidence this is the cause as my own garage already did this. I have allowed them to proceed with this to satisfy their own diagnostic procedure but I am concerned that the cause is elsewhere. They have called to say that the garage who they sublet the 4 wheel alignment wouldn't touch the car and so they wont either. They state that they think it has been in a crash which it hasn't whilst in my possession (I cant speak for the previous owner but nothing was mentioned) and that said it didn't have the torque steer issue before the top strut mount was replaced.
I have also noticed that the steering wheel when the car is driving straight is pointing slightly right. I have owned the car for well over a year and it was driving fine (no torque steer) before I took it in for the top mount repair.
So Nissan Altrincham have washed their hands of it, it will be going back to the local garage I used to do the repair. I hope that someone on here has some ideas as it makes a £6k car fairly worthless for resale when nobody seems to want to fix it.
It has soured me on EV's a little since the manufacturers don't appear willing to fix their cars. its like driving a apple laptop.
I reached out to Indra since they have fixed my heater previously and did a great job. Any ideas on this one Mike?
Recently I had a knocking noise coming from the passenger side when I applied full right steering lock and turning a corner. I took it to my local (non-Nissan) garage for replace where they diagnosed a broken top strut mount and also replaced that and the large plastic bearing.
When I got the car back I noticed after taking it on the motorway that when traveling accelerating from 60 to 70mph a large amount of torque steer and then similarly a negative torque steer effect when the regen was applied when I came off the accelerator.
The car was returned to my local garage who again checked all the steering and the alignment. They again replaced the top bearing as it was making noise again with a second new bearing which stopped that noise. The torque steer is still very bad.
I have taken it to Nissan Westway in Altrincham UK and they have done their preliminary first hour of diagnostics but couldn't isolate the issue. Their first suggestion is to get the 4 wheel tracking alignment done and see whether that solves the issue. I do not have confidence this is the cause as my own garage already did this. I have allowed them to proceed with this to satisfy their own diagnostic procedure but I am concerned that the cause is elsewhere. They have called to say that the garage who they sublet the 4 wheel alignment wouldn't touch the car and so they wont either. They state that they think it has been in a crash which it hasn't whilst in my possession (I cant speak for the previous owner but nothing was mentioned) and that said it didn't have the torque steer issue before the top strut mount was replaced.
I have also noticed that the steering wheel when the car is driving straight is pointing slightly right. I have owned the car for well over a year and it was driving fine (no torque steer) before I took it in for the top mount repair.
So Nissan Altrincham have washed their hands of it, it will be going back to the local garage I used to do the repair. I hope that someone on here has some ideas as it makes a £6k car fairly worthless for resale when nobody seems to want to fix it.
It has soured me on EV's a little since the manufacturers don't appear willing to fix their cars. its like driving a apple laptop.
I reached out to Indra since they have fixed my heater previously and did a great job. Any ideas on this one Mike?