Drive with two hands.

[matthewb0051]

Drove from Northern VA to Texas twice in the past few years with my son. He scared the bejezuz out of me. Way too fast for conditions and tended to get up close to car in front before deciding what to do.

The wife is an entire other bag of problems. Even our kids complain to me about her texting while driving. She will claim it's talk to text but we all know better.

Also her hands are at 12 and 6 and sometimes just 6 ONLY. Nice high center of gravity Land Rover. One day she's going to over correct because of the F'ed up hand position and flip that thing. But she can't be told.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by stevej37

It could be worse....

Haha!

Sorry for laughing SM!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Drove from Northern VA to Texas twice in the past few years with my son. He scared the bejezuz out of me. Way too fast for conditions and tended to get up close to car in front before deciding what to do.

Yep, the waiting until you're on the ass of the car in front of you before you decide what to do bugs the carp out of me.

Also her hands are at 12 and 6 and sometimes just 6 ONLY. Nice high center of gravity Land Rover. One day she's going to over correct because of the F'ed up hand position and flip that thing. But she can't be told.

The hold the wheel at 6 thing bugs me a lot. I've seen people that hold the wheel with 2 fingers down there.

[WPOZZZ]

My gf drives one handed at 2:00, with her left hand.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

A friend of mine likes to drive on long straight roads with just his knee keeping the car going straight. Bad habits.

That's how we rolled joints back in the day. How we survived is a mystery to this day.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

My gf drives one handed at 2:00, with her left hand.

That's WEIRD!

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

My gf drives one handed at 2:00, with her left hand.

Originally Posted by masraum

That's WEIRD!

Her seating position is reclined. I tried explaining to her it was dangerous, but you know how it goes.

[matthewb0051]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

My gf drives one handed at 2:00, with her left hand.

Oh man, that reminds me of a case I had about 15 years ago. Dude was pleading to rubbing on his GF that was under age, even though he was only 18 or 19.

Judge thought they were parked and getting it on. Guy says, no your honor I was driving.

Judge says, so let me get this straight... you had one hand on the steering wheel and the other on her hooha (not the word he used).

It was all I could do to keep from laughing. Judge had never been married so I'm not sure he knew that this sort of thing was possible.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Her seating position is reclined.

That's another one that bugs me.

My son did that when he was in his teens, seat way back, then I think he drove with his hand at 6 o'clock.

Fortunately, he grew out of it.

[peppy]

[QUOTE=matthewb0051;11773944Way too fast for conditions and tended to get up close to car in front before deciding what to do[/QUOTE]

My dad said if you ever had the brakes fail you will learn, I did and luckily I didn't hit anything.

[A930Rocket]

Our daughter used to drive with one hand at the bottom of the wheel. I told her multiple times, 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock. Being out of the house years ago, I don’t know what she does now.

[72doug2,2S]

10 and 2, but save weight first and ditch the air bags

[Tervuren]

This was the only way I could drive my Z06 for much of the year.
Most of my left arm wasn't working for me, could get it on the 6 and keep the car straightish while taking my right hand off 12 to shift with my right.
Needless to say, I wasn't burning rubber like that.

Prior to that, not sure I've ever done 12 and 6.
The off center four spoke design in the C5 does make the 6 an easy grab.
What surprised me is I had an easier time in the manual 'Vette than the auto Jag for the first few months.

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Also her hands are at 12 and 6 and sometimes just 6 ONLY.

[stomachmonkey]

Been a long day.

So when i said he drove with both hands i didn’t mean just hands at 10-2 I meant actively using both hands at the same time controlling the wheel with equal force.

We were at his apt moving him in and went out to dinner so I drove.

I think i figured it out.

I tried driving the same as him and oddly enough the car feels like it has lobe like a cam in the steering rack.

Kind of hard to explain but there is a resistance change dead center at the top of the lobe.

There’s no flat spot if that makes sense.

It’s impossible to keep the car dead center exerting equal pressure on both sides simultaneously.

There’s nothing wrong with the car, i think that’s just they way it is.

2019 Kia Soul with 40k on it.

It almost feels like it’s intentionally there to help mitigate FWD torque steer.

It’ll just fall over to the other side no matter what leading to the constant correction

[pavulon]

That sounds like an issue to be fixed. Are the car’s tires shot?

As for bad habits, I rode in a taxi from downtown Kona to the airport on the lava flow and the driver pedaled the accelerator like she was riding a bike the entire way. Wtf?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by pavulon

That sounds like an issue to be fixed. Are the car’s tires shot?

As for bad habits, I rode in a taxi from downtown Kona to the airport on the lava flow and the driver pedaled the accelerator like she was riding a bike the entire way. Wtf?

Tires are fine.

I don’t let my family drive janky ****.

Could be an alignment issue, incorrect camber. That’s a thing to check.

But it doesn’t do it when using only one hand, right or left, as the main steering input.

It really does feel like it’s intentional to mitigate that tiny bit of bias you get from torque steer by reducing resistance at the steering pump.

Back in the day had a buddy with a tricked out MX6. It was leased so he disconnected the speedo to avoid going over contract mileage.

But that car had a variable pump that used speed as one of its metrics to calculate resistance feedback.

The car was a nightmare to drive. Totally unpredictable.

[onZedge]

[WPOZZZ]

Your son should take it in as it should still be under warranty.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Could be an alignment issue, incorrect camber. That’s a thing to check.

Sounds like insufficient positive caster to me. I guess really out of spec camber could have some effect, but caster angle is the dimension that is associated with tracking.

[RobFrost]

Did you tell him to keep the car in the centre of the lane or give other instruction first? Maybe the over vigilant steering was a response to you being in the car monitoring him.

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