Hi,

I had the right-side Spring Seat replaced on my 1997 850 T-5. After doing so, the allignment was off, so I had it re-alligned. But after doing all this, the car handles differently. First of all, if I'm driving in the left lane, and I want to move to the right lane, I have to turn the steering wheel more to the right than I did before to get the car to move. Now the shop that did the allignment said this is normal with the allignment, and it will keep the tires from wearing as fast. Okay, that sounded like a good answer. I can accept that.

But the other thing that seems different is that when I first bought the car, about two months ago, the steering felt tight, and seemed to have good control around corners etc.... But now after the above work was done, the steering seems kind of lose, like it has some free-play. It doesn't have that tight secure feeling any more. And going around a tight corner, it goes into the corner feeling firm, but then it feels that there's a little slippage in the grip. Hard to explain. So, could having the Spring Seat replaced, caused something else to go out of adjustment or something, or am I just imagining things and feeling paranoid? ")

Thank you for your input.

Michael