I am new to Land Rovers, (and off roading), and have recently brought a 1998 Land Rover Discovery. I have to say that I drive it quite slowly, when compared to other cars, because it feels “unstable”. Having said that I have had no problems with it. Today my wife took it out for the first time and was going down a dead straight road at 50 mph when she said the steering went light and the car started to swerve across the road, she tried to correct it and it then started going all over the place. She ended up ploughing into a field on the opposite side of the road. She has been driving for 20 years and this is her first accident.
I checked the car out, drove it back home from the field and everything feels “normal”, tyres are OK, (Colway C trax MT), track rod ends seem ok, rest of steering feels OK, body roll feels quite a lot but I thought that was normal for a Land Rover.
Any ideas what might have caused this? Anything that may be worn that I should be checking?