Steering wheel shudderrrrrring at 80 -100km/h ... after 2 wheel balances!!!

[Guest]

Hi everybody!

My bg5 GTB has had ver 7 wrx wheels put on after i was told all my old wheels were (all straight and in great nick), has had two wheel balances, and still shudders like a big white vibrator from hell. Can anybody please tell me what might be wrong with my legacy?

[subieboy]

What tyres do you have fitted? ElCheapo or decent name brand such as Firestone/Bridgestone/et al?

Have you had a wheel alignment done?

Are all your suspension bushes in good nick?

Are your struts in good shape???

[Optical]

could be brake discs

[Kiwi_Fozze]

could also be warped rims, or perhaps flat spots on the tyres?

[subout]

Wheel bearings

[Guest]

The guy who balanced the wheels would have told you if you had flat spots / bent wheels etc

Brake discs will only cause an issue under braking ( unless there is a huge chunk of disc broken off causing an inbalance issue)

Does the car ONLY vibrate/ shudder when under accel/ load and go away when you get off the throttle?

If so then Inner axles joints will be the cause

[B_Man]

Did it shake before you put these wheels on?

[Guest]

wheel bearing shot?

[DRFVDR]

 Ichi Ban said:

The guy who balanced the wheels would have told you if you had flat spots / bent wheels etc

Brake discs will only cause an issue under braking ( unless there is a huge chunk of disc broken off causing an inbalance issue)

Does the car ONLY vibrate/ shudder when under accel/ load and go away when you get off the throttle?

If so then Inner axles joints will be the cause

Yup would have to agree with inner CV's

also see if you can find a place that does ON vehicle balancing

[Guest]

The wheels and tires are in good nick, it shudders when from 70/80 km/h upwards, wheels have been balanced twice. strange thing is that sometimes after 15min driving it just chills out (ie. on motorway) and becomes smooth.

[Guest]

so OFF throttle its all good?

[Guest]

when i take my foot off the pedal the shuddering eases up

[Guest]

Inner axle joints are worn / dry / siezing

You can repack the joints and swap the complete left and right axles from side to side

This will load the oposite side of the joints that will be practically unworn

Have done this trick many times with gr8 results

Let me know how you get on

Rick

[Guest]

hmmm ... well i would need some help with that. are you in auckland?

[Guest]

Nope I'm in Wellies

[Swindog]

They are easy enough to do if your mechanically minded. Im sure Ichi would draw you a picture.

[Guest]

Noted Swindog. Ichi, can you please draw me a picture?

[Guest]

A picture of what? Yo Mumma? LOL

[Guest]

Nah your mum will do just fine. But is a diagram or some bollocks that i might be able to look up? Because i wouldn't what i'd be looking at to be honest.

[Guest]

honestly if ya have zero idea about this then dont attempt it - it deals with suspension, drivetrain etc

Take it to a workshop and tell them you want the front axles repacked and swappped left to right

They should charge you around 2 - 2.5hrs plus a comsumables charge

[Guest]

ok cool, because i have no idea. Sweet cheers everyone for the advice! :D

[Drunkenmonkey]

just thought i would let you guys know front brakees were seized on couldnt even rotate the wheel with the car off the ground..

[Jakee]

 Drunkenmonkey said:

just thought i would let you guys know front brakees were seized on couldnt even rotate the wheel with the car off the ground..

Always good.

[rex-leggy]

shit! thats something you would smell wouldn't ya

[Drunkenmonkey]

you couldnt actually smell it. we pulled it off the trailer up.onto the hoist and could feel alot of heat from the rotors.. they were going blue already hahah

 rex-leggy said:

s***! thats something you would smell wouldn't ya