Lane Centering Pulls To Right

[kamorela]

I've been meaning to write about this for some time now. I bought a 24 AWD ER Premium (Job 2) in November last year. I use Adaptive Cruise Control most of the time and I particularly like the lane-centering feature. However, it has a peculiarity that I find troubling and potentially dangerous: when I engage it while driving, it often - but not always - pulls the car firmly to the right.

When it does this, and if I'm in traffic with a car travelling next to me on my right, I'm afraid I'll run into them so I fight the pull and manually steer my car, but the steering wheel continues to exert a pull to the right. After a bit of time it may or may not release and return to normal straight-ahead steering. If the pull remains for too long I have to turn lane centering off to relieve this tug of war with my car. And sometimes if I turn it off and back on again, it then acts normally - i.e. no pull to the right - but again not always. If no traffic to my right, sometimes I'll just let the car do its thing to gain insight into its behavior. It always returns to center-lane but only after brushing the right lane marking, maybe even riding the line.

It's been this way since I drove it home new, this isn't a new issue. Does the system need recalibrating or something? Has anyone else experienced this?

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[godnet23]

Yes, it happens to me too, and it's quite annoying. Sharing experiences on this would be great, especially if there is something that can be done.

 

[ChrisO]

We have never experienced this, but it might be due to our use cases. Note this is true for both the 2024 and the 2025. But before I get into the details you might want to see what the lane keeping sensitivity Is set to. Not that it has been that different for us, more of a gentle tug when going over the line without signaling.

Both my wife and I keep lane centering on all the time. It engages at 40 mph and disengages below 35 mph.

My wife never uses adaptive curse control or BlueCruise. I have used both (on 2024 during trial period and after trial period) but only when on longer stretches of good highway, mostly on long trips. I have never experienced any tug of the wheel when I engage it.

 

[Richmond2000]

I find my 2021 premium appears to ONLY track the RIGHT side line and positions the car to it and on wider motorways the car sits to the right side of the lane
with bluecruise active and passing a large vehicle the car shifts to the LEFT while passing it and is better centered
and I often find myself holding the car left against the auto steer

 

[ChrisO]

I find my 2021 premium appears to ONLY track the RIGHT side line and positions the car to it and on wider motorways the car sits to the right side of the lane
with bluecruise active and passing a large vehicle the car shifts to the LEFT while passing it and is better centered
and I often find myself holding the car left against the auto steer

Doesn’t it show indicators for both lane markers?

Mine shows both unless I go through an intersection where the right lane marker is missing and the it will only show the left one. The indicators are different on the 2025 than the 2024, but in both cases I see/saw both.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Doesn’t it show indicators for both lane markers?

The 21s have pretty much always tracked towards the right side. It has improved since launch, but I'd be hard pressed to cal it centered.

 

[celestial_knight]

Are you on BlueCruise 1.5? It's fine, and works marvelously. The local lane centering (Copilot 360) shares a lot of the software base, and of course the hardware

At first it did seem right biased moreso than I am comfortable with, but having had the opportunity to look closely (since BlueCruise was driving) we have plenty of room and are definitely in the lane

I think it's partly because we can't really see the right side of the car all that well that normally we pull left just to be sure

 

[T1328]

I haven’t had this in my ‘24 Mach-E, but had the opposite, pulling to the left, in our other car, the Kia EV9. I took that into the dealer. Although it was also not always happening, luckily they were able to reproduce it. They then recalibrated a few cameras, etc, and tested it again. They couldn’t reproduce it. I just got back from driving our daughter to college to drop her off and coming back home - around 350 mile trip, and it’s not longer pulling to the left. So, I imagine it is possible that this is a calibration issue in your Mach-E too, and if so, that it is fixable.

 

[ChrisO]

Are you on BlueCruise 1.5? It's fine, and works marvelously. The local lane centering (Copilot 360) shares a lot of the software base, and of course the hardware

At first it did seem right biased moreso than I am comfortable with, but having had the opportunity to look closely (since BlueCruise was driving) we have plenty of room and are definitely in the lane

I think it's partly because we can't really see the right side of the car all that well that normally we pull left just to be sure

At the most anyone with a 2024 or older can have at this point is 1.4 BlueCruise, only 2025s have 1.5. But I personally never saw this on my 2024 with 1.4.

And I definitely agree about not being able to see the right side very good, but I never really felt that it was close to the right side unless there was a car right there (which I assume is just me reacting to the close car), which if possible I always try to avoid.

I was just driving at about 45 mph and switched lane keeping on and off repeatedly and felt nothing. Note that I didn’t have adaptive cruise control on though.

 

[Detroit33]

My lane centering is definitely right-side biased, annoyingly so. Like Richmond2000 said above, I find myself holding the car left just to stay centered in the lane. Though to answer the original question, no, I have never felt my car pull firmly to the right.

 

[Vgkfan]

Mine was very right-side biased for the first couple of years. Basically put the driver near the middle of the lane. Finally got an ota that helped. I believe it was the one that would move the car slightly away from a large vehicle, and it shows the position in the lane.

 

[Richmond2000]

Doesn’t it show indicators for both lane markers?

Mine shows both unless I go through an intersection where the right lane marker is missing and the it will only show the left one. The indicators are different on the 2025 than the 2024, but in both cases I see/saw both.

yes it does but on wide lanes as found on autoroutes it favours the RIGHT side markings

 

[legendairyht]

Mine favors the right side as well. I thought it needs to be recalibrated.

 

[2FlyMache]

So in my 4 plus years of owning and driving my car, it will move right to get its reference then center. If you try to fight it it will continue to pull to right. I never turn mine on when I am next to someone. I suggest you try letting it go right to the line with no one around and see if it automatically moves to center.

 

[Mark813]

So in my 4 plus years of owning and driving my car, it will move right to get its reference then center. If you try to fight it it will continue to pull to right. I never turn mine on when I am next to someone. I suggest you try letting it go right to the line with no one around and see if it automatically moves to center.

I have the right side bias in my 2024 Premium AWD ER and like mentioned here now I don't turn on adaptive cruise control ACC when I'm right next to a vehicle. Even under the normal situations I find myself pulling the wheel a little left because it sits so close to the line.

It happened in both ACC and Blue Cruise, but I haven't had BC in a while

I have experienced it wandering way to the right as if changing lanes. Happens when I turn it on when in the left or middle lane of a 3 lane highway. And I feel like the stripes are pretty well marked there in my opinion.

But my best guess is I'm on a bit of hill or curved section of road when I turn this on. I've also noticed sometimes on curves it slow me way down below the speed limit posted. Maybe because the sensors are picking up the wrong car in front of you on a 2 lane curve?

First time I've heard about 40 mph mentioned for lane centering. I've run ACC on a one lane each way road and it will keep me centered when I turn ACC on at 15mph.

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