ok i have had a problem ever since i fitted a set of 225/45/16 (cossie wheels) to my mk5 1992 ford escort bassicly the steering is very light and skatey and picks up the road and puts you all over the road as to speek also when turning into a corner it kind of locks in a persition as you go round the corner.
i have changed the the lower arms, front anti roll bar busses and tie rods from anti roll bar to the surspension struts and had the tracking set up so im not sure what to change next. any advice would be great

 

Had the same problem myself mate sumone told me the offset is different on an escos so didnt matter what i change the problem was still there Altho i swapped them for a set of rondells and its fine,my mate had the same problem with escos alloys on a mk5 van so he took them off to.

 

must be a way round it other than changeing wheels can you not use ecos struts and hubs or something? guess it will still be out

 

Dont think they fit mate as the escort cosworth is a sierra floorpan at the end of the day

 

ok so which way is the ofset out? do the wheels need to sit in more to the hub out out more to the hubs?

 

I think the offset needs to be in more as escos wheels normaly stick out the arch on a mk5 i think,the only thing i dont understand is i put rondells on mine from an escos and it drives much better,must be somethin to do with the standard escos wheels???

 

well today we put it back on the rmps and played with the tracking some more and towed the wheels out instead of haveing them parelell and the difference was great improvement! may be a good thing or might just get threw tyres quite quickly not sure yet

 

Gud luck with it mate

 

might be that it because of the profil of tyre i only say that do to my van doing it