HELP!

My A4 seems to drive fine and straight on dry roads. But the moment it hits snow and accelerate above 60km, my car will start swaying like crazy and will potentially spin out. Traction control indicator is not lit so it should mean its on. I had all my control arms replaced roughly about 5 months ago. Had an alignment done (only on the front though). The front passenger wheel bearing replaced and just got new tires. It never did this last year though.

Could it just be bad rear wheel alignment to cause the car to sway and spin out? I need this fixed cuz its scary driving on the highway.

Please let me know what you guys think or if you guys had similar problems

 

get a 4 wheel alignment for starters

 

are you possibly running a wider tire than last year? because that would make it feel more floaty on the softer stuff

 

no im not...i purchased exact same size tires and specs. i even wen to audi today and they arent too sure themselves so i booked an appointment next week for them to check my wheel alignment

 

It could potentially be the back needs aligned but thats not likely. Possibly poor front alignment which happens a lot. Or you could need struts try bouncing the car by pushing down on each corner does it come up and settle or does it bounce a few times? Also I don't see anything about tie rods those go bad frequently too.

 

drive better? and speak in american measurement terms?

 

More than likely you do not have loud agressive snow tires on the car and in snow conditions you are simply going too fast for the tires to channel snow.

 

what rally said. i don't think anything is wrong with your tires. you would've found looking at the treads on the last set

 

speak in american measurement terms?

Is this going to solve any problems? Also, is he really speaking? And what is an American measurement term? Do you mean English or Standard? Maybe vgo should post in an English Audi page, because they use metric.

 

Oh yea. I too have experienced the swaying feeling. It was in an 84 4000Q, which is a different Q system altogether. The car had good traction out of the gate, but would feel very loose on snow at slow highway speeds. I never really figured out what the problem was.