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d80s0q:
Hi folks, I'm hoping the collective mind here can help me :)

I picked up an Edition 35, 5 door, DSG 3 weeks ago. It replaced by beautiful Edition 30. It's a lovely car aside from one thing which is really bugging me and making the experience less good than it should when you have a new car:

When I accelerate hard the car pulls left/right as if it's got torque steer or something. I have checked the tyre pressure and all is set properly. The front tyres are worn but road legal.

As I experience this it gets my mind going and I think (but am not sur if real) I feel some pulling at normal speeds/RPM too.

Any thoughts on what this could be? I don't think it's meant to happen - my edition 30 never exhibited this. I was thinking wheel allignment (although that would pull me one way or the other, right?), suspension damage or a remap (though bought from a VW dealer so doubt this). Anything else?

I was going to ring the dealer as still in my 30 days so hoping they will check it out rather than pushing me to the warranty guys and then not doing anything. Needless to say this is not making me happy :(

Dan_FR:
Take it straight back and tell them the car is not driving straight. They should check the wheel alignment for you I would think.

After some suspension work mine recently the toe/tracking was out by around 0.25 (tolerance at most places is something like 0.06). The car was horrid to drive and incredibly unstable at high speeds. Can't say I noticed anything on acceleration as I didn't drive it fast until the alignment was sorted.

Definitely worth taking back if unhappy though as it doesn't sound right at all

Stupots:
Mine did something similar and it turned out to be badly worn front wishbone bushes.

Hope you get it sorted.

d80s0q:
Thanks chaps, very helpful info. I have now got it booked in with VW tomorrow. Starting with a test to hopefully allow the technician to experience it, then onto the checks such as (I hope) wheel alignment checks and so on). I will let you know how it goes - hopefully they'll see the issue and know how to fix it, do that and my drive home will be as it should. I hope...

d80s0q:
OK, car is with VW. Tech guy rode with me and issue wouldn't properly present itself - typical. We didn't really have the road to accelerate though so unsurprising. He did feel vibrations from the underpanels though, so he agrees *something* is wrong. Hopefully he fixes that and it's the same cause as my issue with it.

I'm so frustrated tho. I tested it twice and no issues, now from picking it up 3 weeks ago it's not right and making me feel bad. I do hope they just resolve today, and accept it's on them, rather than my fault in 3 weeks (of sensible normal driving!!!)

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