OK....no vanagon content, but I don't know were else I can get the collective wisdom of hundreds of years of motoring experience! �And it may be interesting to most car people.
We have a '97 Toyota Avalon that has developed a sort of drift, mostly in wide, sweeping, left turns. �Except it really isn't a drift.....it is more of a hop or skip. �On the turn if I hit a rough patch of road, a bump, or one of the raised divider reflectors, the rear feels like it hops, and gives the unsettling feeling of an unintentional drift. �It grabs the road back right away but it feels really scary, especially if it happens at highway speeds.
The car now has brand new Bridgestone Potenza G19 tires on it, and it makes the same skip as it did with prior set of worn Pirellis. �So I don't think it's the tires.
Anyone ever experience this? �The car has 180M miles on it now, and this phenomenon has presented itself in the last 15-20M miles. �I might add that the struts are relatively new, and I have to check, but they may have been replaced about the same time that the skipping began.
Thanks, Anthony'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)