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Steering Wheel Vibration
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:16 am
by D-Dub
I've just had new tyres put on the car and when i get to 60mph i get really bad steering wheel vibration. So i went back and they re-balanced the wheels, but its still there! What could it be? Im running 10mm spacers, but i've never had the vibrations before?
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:21 am
by sally_healey
Could be that one of the wheels still needs balancing, sometimes you're better off putting a wheel on the back if it's a toughy to balance.
Not necessarily the wheel at fault tyres are never 100% true, i've got one on my GTi which was fine with the original tyres then I had them changed and it needed over 95grams of weight in one spot. Got this put on the back 'cos it's quite hard to balance out that much imperfection.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:20 pm
by omicron
Crap wheel balancer. Take it somewhere else.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:52 pm
by thedees1
yup its definityl the balancing, i had the same prob as you, i used quick fit once as i was in a rush needing 2 fronts, after 3 attempts they could not fix the vibro. Then i took it to my normal olace and they fixed it first time.
The only prob ive started to get recently is bad vibrating when braking through the steering wheel
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:43 pm
by polo power
if they cant get it to balance up right they shud break the bead again and rotate the tyre 180 'c then rebalance 99% of the time it works for me.