Odd steering wheel pull

[WhiteDream26]

I have a somewhat interesting issue/imagined issue with my '26 GT manual. At least I hope I'm imagining it. I took a long drive today with my wife, probably about 100 miles. Twice I noticed that when I sightly turned the steering wheel, it didn't automatically spring back like any steering wheel does. I felt that I had to manually bring it back to center. I was in Normal driving mode and Normal steering mode. It didn't happen consecutively, about 15 miles from one another. Both times I was going no more than 30 mph. I have to be honest and say it was a tad unnerving. Am I just imagining this? Anybody else have this happen in theirs?

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[Will2]

Couple possibilities:

- Mustangs are known to have less of the "automatically spring back" to center than other cars. Drift guys call it "self-steer", but Mustangs are known for that in the grassroots drift world, and I honestly think it's part of why you get so many Mustang crashes (in addition to other factors). The driver has to be really good at remembering where center is and more forcefully/manually spinning the wheel back precisely to center after a small counter-steer.

- I also feel momentary loss of resistance like 'going numb' in the steering sometimes, and I think it's the EPS. There's a lot of computer in the middle. Not only is the steering numb in general with little road feedback, but there are tons of back-end settings and little computer maneuvers it's doing to make you not feel road bumps or other things. They have names like "active nibble control" and I never really bothered to figure out what they are. You can look up how to tweak these in FORScan.

 

[Neggytive]

Oh the joys of electric power steering.

Unless your lane centering is on or lane departure it should come back to center

Have you had the car aligned? Did someone forget to reset the steering angle sensor and center steer?

Do you have caster/camber plates and the caster is out of spec?

 

[WhiteDream26]

Couple possibilities:

- Mustangs are known to have less of the "automatically spring back" to center than other cars. Drift guys call it "self-steer", but Mustangs are known for that in the grassroots drift world, and I honestly think it's part of why you get so many Mustang crashes (in addition to other factors). The driver has to be really good at remembering where center is and more forcefully/manually spinning the wheel back precisely to center after a small counter-steer.

- I also feel momentary loss of resistance like 'going numb' in the steering sometimes, and I think it's the EPS. There's a lot of computer in the middle. Not only is the steering numb in general with little road feedback, but there are tons of back-end settings and little computer maneuvers it's doing to make you not feel road bumps or other things. They have names like "active nibble control" and I never really bothered to figure out what they are. You can look up how to tweak these in FORScan.

Thank you! That's very informative!

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