Hako

I have a 2001 CL500 that bumpsteer on rear axel. it feels like a very bad live axel when i go over railroad tracks an potholes.
I have check every bushing for slack.
Please give me some lookups to check

awiner

Have you checked the rear sub frame bushings ? They often collapse after so many years.

Welwynnick

Try checking the strut top bush:
Jack up one corner so the wheel is unsupported, then try to bounce the wheel up and down. It shouldn't move easily, but if it does, the bush has failed :-(

Nick

Hako

I have now checkt the sub frame bushings and the strut top bushing and cant find any problems with them. It is enough that they are just a little bad so the car becomes undrivable?

Im on the toe-in toe-out strut and looking for problems, the inner bushing are little weak.

Welwynnick

Best way to figure out suspension bushes is to remove the spring and damper, then you really find out what's going on.

Disconnect the level sensor
Disconnect the lower arm from the wheel carrier
Disconnect the strut from the lower arm
Drop the lower arm and move the strut back
Reconnect the lower arm to the wheel carrier
Waggle everything around.

Nick