Serious steering shudder!!!
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Serious steering shudder!!!
Going along the M4 last night the cars steering started to shudder as if I was on the rumble strip.It got that bad I had to pull onto the hard shoulder!.Checked to make sure that all wheels were not loose and after mooching down the hard shoulder it cleared.Ten minutes later the shudder returned and became worse,the steering wheel was trying to kick to the left as if the wheel was ready to come off!
The AA man(cheers Ed) jacked up all the four corners in turn and after a lot of checking said he could not find anything wrong.The only thing he could find was a possible worn bush which he said was not that bad to effect it.
Carried on slowly without problem only to have to go into Reading services with the wheel seriously kicking over to the left.I thought the dam thing was trying to kill me!!.
How bad it felt and shuddered I thought there is bound to be something loose,but no all was as it should be.
Limped back onto the motorway and from Reading all the way to Cirencester the car ran without a problem???
Have not got a clue what it could be but I know there's something serious which comes and goes.
Any ideas?
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you could have a slight buckle in your wheel which runs ok until you get to a high speed….try swapping one wheel at a time with the spare and run it upto the speed you know will shudder
an un balanced wheel will cause this but not normally as bad as you say but a buckle in the wheel will
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81 GTI Tin Top (1.8t "The Tarmac Muncher" )
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Thanks again for you info.
Sean
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