What's a flag?
25 October 2005, 07:01 PM
#1
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: North Wales
Posts: 58
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
What's a flag?
Hi there.
Recently had an issue with my MY03 STI where the steering wheel was off centre. Got the tracking checked and steering column looked at, but it turned out that the problem was caused by a flag on the back driver side being out of alignment.
They re-aligned the flag and the steering wheel returned back to the centre. Though a few weeks later it seems that the flag has gone off a bit again, will have to get it checked.
My question is what is this flag part? Never heard of it before. Anyone got any links to where I can find out more about this? Also, if I'm constantly getting problems with it, is it something that needs to be replaced?
Many thanks
Jas.
Recently had an issue with my MY03 STI where the steering wheel was off centre. Got the tracking checked and steering column looked at, but it turned out that the problem was caused by a flag on the back driver side being out of alignment.
They re-aligned the flag and the steering wheel returned back to the centre. Though a few weeks later it seems that the flag has gone off a bit again, will have to get it checked.
My question is what is this flag part? Never heard of it before. Anyone got any links to where I can find out more about this? Also, if I'm constantly getting problems with it, is it something that needs to be replaced?
Many thanks
Jas.
27 October 2005, 02:46 PM
#2
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 465
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by MrClyfar
Hi there.
Recently had an issue with my MY03 STI where the steering wheel was off centre. Got the tracking checked and steering column looked at, but it turned out that the problem was caused by a flag on the back driver side being out of alignment.
They re-aligned the flag and the steering wheel returned back to the centre. Though a few weeks later it seems that the flag has gone off a bit again, will have to get it checked.
My question is what is this flag part? Never heard of it before. Anyone got any links to where I can find out more about this? Also, if I'm constantly getting problems with it, is it something that needs to be replaced?
Many thanks
Jas.
Recently had an issue with my MY03 STI where the steering wheel was off centre. Got the tracking checked and steering column looked at, but it turned out that the problem was caused by a flag on the back driver side being out of alignment.
They re-aligned the flag and the steering wheel returned back to the centre. Though a few weeks later it seems that the flag has gone off a bit again, will have to get it checked.
My question is what is this flag part? Never heard of it before. Anyone got any links to where I can find out more about this? Also, if I'm constantly getting problems with it, is it something that needs to be replaced?
Many thanks
Jas.
28 October 2005, 09:46 PM
#4
Scooby Regular
more likely to mean the "flag" (as in marker) they use to check your 4 wheel alignment as opposed to anything on your car, never heard that description though
28 October 2005, 10:22 PM
#5
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Herts.
Posts: 1,727
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The tyre place near me mentioned "adjusting the back flags" when they were checking my tracking and I said the steering wheel was not straight.
I didn't know what they were on about either
I didn't know what they were on about either
29 October 2005, 07:00 AM
#6
OK: Could this be the discs on the rear lower arms that are marked to index the rear toe? iirc they are on the rearmost bolts that pass through the subframe by the diff for the arms.
Graham
Graham
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post