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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 05:06 PM
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Its m3 evo 5 door, wen its under hard throttle it drives brill no problems, but wen the camber changes of the road or goes a little bumpy, it feels like the rear end is trying to steer! only at 90mph plus. It Only does this if say u go over a bit on a hill, mainly wen the road changes from being flat. Very hard to explain!!!

Our theory maybe that its somethin to do woth the diff witch is lsd, and i think its a plated one! Thinking that maybe wen the weight moves off one side of the car, its sendin more power to one wheel.

Its actuallly dangerous, u be driving hard to 100 go over a little hill or somthing and it will force to one side. Hope someone can help, The diif its noisy at all, and its fully 4 wheel alighined! camber and tracking all spot on. It gets very twitchy on uneven sufaces.

Thanks Matt.

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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 05:14 PM
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i guess you have checked all the obvious things for something wrong not tight etc?

i have seen 3 m3's which have crack the metal bracket where the diff is mounted - but i doubt that would give you the problems your experiencing

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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 05:18 PM
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thats brand new as ive split that b4. Yeah everything else okay.
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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 07:57 PM
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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 08:09 PM
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bearing?
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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 08:20 PM
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wheel bearing? would i hear that tho?
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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 08:23 PM
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i just had the same thing on the MR2 and it was sometihng not bolted up properly on the rear suspension/beam.

doesnt sound like the diff to me
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true check bushes?
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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 08:37 PM
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Rear arm bushes up near the rear inner sills, thats the usual fault, when split/worn they can cause a shit load of play at the rear wheels.
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Old Aug 22, 2009 | 09:06 PM
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ofcourse yeah, the rear trailing arm bushes are VERY common to fail.

so are the rear topmounts
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