I’ve tried searching other posts to see if I could find what I was looking for, but no definite answer to this situation.

This problem only occurs on certain types of highway. It’s like the car is following the grooves in the road and not the steering wheel. I don’t know the correct term for it , but it starts to sway, drift or swerve and it’s very irritating and possibly dangerous. When this happens it’s like the car has a mind of it’s own. I have to hold the wheel tight to make sure I don’t go into another lane.

I’ve read it could be the tires or the shocks. I have 2 new rear tires and took my car in for maintenance and the report they gave me said the shocks were all fine.

On the same strip of highway and of all the cars I’ve driven this is the only one this happens with.

Send me your feedback so I can spend more money!

 

I beleive it is called tramlining and is caused by the tires.

 

Never heard the term. Is it correctable?

 

Yes. You need to get lower performance tires.

I'd recommend you keep the tires you have now and suffer the tramlining; you'll learn to avoid the grooves in the road.

 

Nizzy, you can read more about tramlining here:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...jsp?techid=47&
It appears from the article you can do more than just get lower performance tires, the question is, what change will work for our cars. I have the same problem when I went from the stock 225/45/18 front to the 245/40/18 size front. Are you running a wider tire than stock up front? I've also started a thread on this recently too but so far no real answers.

 

could also be caused by too much toe, or a bad alignment, i have one rear wheel with too much toe and the car felt like it was crabwalking down the road. got it realigned and its been good to go

 

ur car is SWANGING, its a dirty south thang =]

 

My car did the same, come to find out that stabilizer bar in my car is bent, and it was pulling to the right, I replaced it and got an alignment done and it was good now