2003 Twitchy Steering

[KnudseUk]

I am amazed at the mild mannered replies to this thread. The Z4 is utterly flawed. I was following my wife the other day, she was in an Audi A4 1.9 tdi. She went round a corner quite fast with no trouble, I followed and lost front. She is a slow driver by the way. The car wants to kill me on bumpy roads. The turn in is so vague you can't do much more than square the corner off and fire out. It's a huge disappointment. My wife won't even drive it having seen the wheel wrenched out my hands several times. The only time the car shows any promise is a constant radius where the sheer amount of rubber and rock hard suspension enables good grip.

Someone earlier said this is feedback, that is just wrong. Feedback is where you feel That you are approaching the limit. The z4 you cannot drive I such a way because it is too unpredictable. Lovely looking car with a great engine and crap handling. Shame

 

[Rik]

I have a 2003 Z4 2.5i - it has done 60k. I have only had the car a month now but I'm not happy with the steering. I have had new tyres fitted (none run flats) and had the tie rod ends replaced. And a garage has done the tracking (although I'm not entirely convinced how well this has been done). The problem is that when there are slight changes in the camber in the road the steering is very twitchy, the steering feels like it is making small corrections which aren't necessary and the tyres feel like they are trying to follow the road. So much so that country roads are hard work, and at motorway speed the problem is very annoying and tiring on the arms on long journeys.

so i have precisely this problem on a Z4 from 2008 i just bought. Does anyone have a solution for this problem yet? it is really obvious, i cannot be the first person having this!

 

[Zikim]

I am amazed at the mild mannered replies to this thread. The Z4 is utterly flawed. I was following my wife the other day, she was in an Audi A4 1.9 tdi. She went round a corner quite fast with no trouble, I followed and lost front. She is a slow driver by the way. The car wants to kill me on bumpy roads. The turn in is so vague you can't do much more than square the corner off and fire out. It's a huge disappointment. My wife won't even drive it having seen the wheel wrenched out my hands several times. The only time the car shows any promise is a constant radius where the sheer amount of rubber and rock hard suspension enables good grip.

Someone earlier said this is feedback, that is just wrong. Feedback is where you feel That you are approaching the limit. The z4 you cannot drive I such a way because it is too unpredictable. Lovely looking car with a great engine and crap handling. Shame

I think that you have a lot of issues with your zed, it should easily handle better than an A4.

You may have worn shocks, bushes, lollipops, broken springs or the alignment may be totally wrong. Get it checked out now!

I had a 3.0 E85 before my 35i and the handling was not good when I bought it but after replacing the above it was a hell of a lot better and certainly better than an A4.

 

[cj10jeeper]

Strange Knudseuk would join the forum over 5 years ago and make the single post above about the Z4 handling with no comment question before..
Bit troll like

 

[Mr Tidy]

so i have precisely this problem on a Z4 from 2008 i just bought. Does anyone have a solution for this problem yet? it is really obvious, i cannot be the first person having this!

Welcome to the forum by the way.

There have been a number of threads regarding this issue. Here is a link to one of the longer ones!

https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=78549