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post Jun 24, 2008 - 12:48 PM
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Hi, haven't been on here a while, sorry! But I had a quiery and usually someone knowledgable on here posts useful info!!!

My car at the moment seems to have some wobbles at high speed! I'll describe the symptoms:

At 60-70mph+ the car drifts slightly to the left, even if its against the natural camber of the road, and the steering wheel shakes, which is quite annoying! I've recently had new tyres fitted all around, newish suspension on the front, electronic tracking and wheel balancing before and after tyre fitting but it still occurs.

The other symptom is under hard the braking the steering wheel shudders even more for a short while but lessens as the car slows down and at low speeds, particularly on roungh surfaces the steering wheel will often dive off at an angle!!!!

I ahve however noticed that the rear strut rod is bent and i have a replacement on order, coming tommorrow and I'll see if this helps at all, although i doubt this is the only problem! I have a feeling it might just be the brakes, but would it shudder at speed when Im not braking?

I have after market alloys but have the spigot rings so its not those, im 99.9% all the bolts are correctly tightened, I just hope its not a steering rack problem...Can anyone offer any advice?

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post Sep 17, 2008 - 4:24 AM
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Ok, I might have resolved this......I checked all the bushings and tie ends, suspension, tightened all nuts and checked calipers again!

I then looked on the back of the wheel and where i had painted over all corrossion from the old discs it was bumpy and uneven, also some of the corrossion transferred to the new discs. So I got some iron wool and scrubbed the mating surfaces clean and flush....Once both surfaces were clean and smooth and put the wheels back on and torqued up the bolts....I also removed the ABS relay and fuse just in case it was an ABS issue. anyway, took it for a drive and the wobbles have drastically reduced! So I put the ABS relay and fuse back in and it drove exactly the same...very small wobbles!! Which means its not an ABS or suspension bushing problem!!!

So in the next couple of days im going to take all the discs of again and clean all the mating surfaces so that it is a totally flush fit...I am alos going to bleed the lines again....Hopefully, I reckon this should resolve this little problem!!! Already its starting to drive much better smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif


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