Its taken a while with one thing and another, but the car is thankfully now fixed.
Turned out it needed a new steering rack as the torque input sensor had failed.
The sensor is only a small part of the rack but you cant buy it on its own!!!
Seat wanted £770 plus a £250 deposit on my old rack, so i sourced one from a Breakers for £150..........a bit of a gamble but it appears to have paid off.
Im faced with another problem now though. Thought a had better get the geometry setup now its lowered and had the steering messed with.
Before getting the tracking done, the camber measurements on the front were -1.05 and -1.28........now they are -1.40 and -0.50
What the fook have they done?
The tracking measurements are bang on, but the odd camber is making it gently wander to the right and understeer when turning left.
Now there is no real adjustment on the camber on these. No slotted holes anyway.
WTF?