Forgive me asking for a clarification, but what I’m hearing you say is the steering is both drifty and unresponsive at high speed, but you’re driving it at high speed for hours at a time anyway?
You know I was expecting someone to call my antics ballsy or brave, just so that I could correct them that this was nothing but shear stupidity on my part. But I see you're too grown up for that lol.
But no not for hours. The whole autobahn part was like 40 mins and the.rest was just doodling along at 35mph in the towns. It was a short trip mostly at speeds that felt alright (around or under the speed limit) with short stints of high speed.
And to clarify the steering, it's like having a deadzone but then it gets very touchy. A bit like gamepad steering in a PC race sim like asetto. By default it has an annoying deadzone and then it just yanks the wheel to almost full lock. This has that kinda touchy feel, which it really has no reason to have if things were as okay as I was told they were. But something ain't right. Could be the rack itself, busted joints, bent arms, a bad setup...all.of the above.
Just to be clear after what I described I won't be running the car anywhere above the 110-120kph, where it still sounds and feels fine, and even that will be a short stint and only once to get me home from where I'm currently. After that its off to the shops with it to find out what thr real culprit is.
I'm not looking to die due to a mechanical failure, if I crash I want it to be my skill issue, not the cars fault. My ego wouldn't allow that lol.