Hello Fellow S60 lovers and owners,

I've a 2012 S60, T4 Plus, that comes with the 235/45R17 Tires. I've been experiencing a weird behavior since I got the car ( I have only 6K KMs on the Odo). Whenever I'm stationary, in traffic, on a road that is tilted to the left, and start to move slowly, the car starts to steer (A complete half a turn in a few meters) and I have to keep steering back to center.

The steering keeps doing that all the time. When I drive faster, I don't get that problem. I think the wheels might be slightly misaligned, only when I'm driving fast that I feel the car moves very slightly to the left, but not to the extent that it completely steers on its own while moving slowly.

Also, under hard acceleration, if for example the steering is slightly to the right, the car would not center itself but the steering would re\main shifted to the right which it shouldn't.

I haven't checked it yet at the Volvo maintenance shop, but since this is Egypt, I wouldn't be expecting much of a technical explanation, just a simple "That's how its supposed to be "

 

well it's true that the steering should center as you speed up but it won't go "perfectly" straight, also if you're on an angle left or right the wheels are inclined to follow the path of least resistance aka turning left or right depending on the angle
most cars will drift a hair while going down a straight line, but while accelerating it should stay straight wheel spin can cause it to move one way or another however. simplest thing to check would be tire pressure and tread ware, make sure they are the same.

 

The act of steering is a lot more aggressive compared to any car I've driven or owned. In a few meters the car would do a complete half a turn and I have to resist it, that never happened to me in any car ever on the same roads (and there are ones that I've done more than 10000 KMs on, before)

 

then that would be the worst alignment issue I've seen
did you buy the car used? was it in a crash?
I would assume all the wheels are identical
go ahead and check the power steering fluid is it empty? or full of metal bits?