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Title: Steering wheel vibration at 120 km/ph
Post by: sambo101 on January 09, 2017, 11:21:00 am

Hey guys,

Have been experiencing a wobble/vibration in the steering wheel only at about 120km/ph, anything around 115km/ph is fine and also around 140km/ph is ok too.

Speed limit is 120 km/ph so would obviously like to have no vibration/wobble in the wheel at this speed? Any thoughts on where to start to diagnose this issue?

Thanks

Title: Re: Steering wheel vibration at 120 km/ph
Post by: pudding on January 09, 2017, 11:24:19 am

Normally a sign of bad wheel balancing.  Have you recently rotated the wheels to even out the wear?  Quite common for that to happen when you move the rears to the front.

Title: Re: Steering wheel vibration at 120 km/ph
Post by: sambo101 on January 09, 2017, 11:50:09 am

Quote from: Pudding on January 09, 2017, 11:24:19 am

Normally a sign of bad wheel balancing.  Have you recently rotated the wheels to even out the wear?  Quite common for that to happen when you move the rears to the front.

I haven't moved the fronts to the rears but have been experiencing the vibration since I bought the car a couple months back. Could balancing be an issue, I know the wheels have no weights on them at all. They are replica BBS CH's, also on the car when I bought it.

Title: Re: Steering wheel vibration at 120 km/ph
Post by: grey golfster on January 09, 2017, 11:56:14 am

I would get them balanced then, cheap enough.

Title: Re: Steering wheel vibration at 120 km/ph
Post by: pudding on January 09, 2017, 12:04:00 pm

If there are no balance weights on the wheels at all, that'll be why then.