cupra R shaking steering wheel
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Balancing a wheel seems to be a lost art.
Its a fairly simple task but the people doing it just don't seem to give a f
k at all what they are doing.
Tyres and wheels are the only thing contacting you to the road and with that it means they take a complete and utter beating too.
In my experience as I generally have larger size wheels on my cars (optional factory upgrades) they are very prone to being sensetive to even being 1gram out.
It used to be 20 years ago, being 5g out made no difference and a lot of garages you go to still say this!!!
Even a slight kink in an alloy can cause all sorts of issues unless its straightened out or the balancer can pile the weight on top of each other to couter it.
Its a nightmare trying to get a balancer to firstly give the wheel a good spin to check the inside and outside rim for kinks and then more importantly to balance it right.
Glad to you got it sorted in the end.
I now travel over 40 miles away to use a GSP9700 Road force balancer - if I had stupid amounts of money id buy one!!!
Its a fairly simple task but the people doing it just don't seem to give a f
k at all what they are doing. Tyres and wheels are the only thing contacting you to the road and with that it means they take a complete and utter beating too.
In my experience as I generally have larger size wheels on my cars (optional factory upgrades) they are very prone to being sensetive to even being 1gram out.
It used to be 20 years ago, being 5g out made no difference and a lot of garages you go to still say this!!!
Even a slight kink in an alloy can cause all sorts of issues unless its straightened out or the balancer can pile the weight on top of each other to couter it.
Its a nightmare trying to get a balancer to firstly give the wheel a good spin to check the inside and outside rim for kinks and then more importantly to balance it right.
Glad to you got it sorted in the end.
I now travel over 40 miles away to use a GSP9700 Road force balancer - if I had stupid amounts of money id buy one!!!
XMT said:
Balancing a wheel seems to be a lost art.
Its a fairly simple task but the people doing it just don't seem to give a fk at all what they are doing.
Tyres and wheels are the only thing contacting you to the road and with that it means they take a complete and utter beating too.
In my experience as I generally have larger size wheels on my cars (optional factory upgrades) they are very prone to being sensetive to even being 1gram out.
It used to be 20 years ago, being 5g out made no difference and a lot of garages you go to still say this!!!
Even a slight kink in an alloy can cause all sorts of issues unless its straightened out or the balancer can pile the weight on top of each other to couter it.
Its a nightmare trying to get a balancer to firstly give the wheel a good spin to check the inside and outside rim for kinks and then more importantly to balance it right.
Glad to you got it sorted in the end.
I now travel over 40 miles away to use a GSP9700 Road force balancer - if I had stupid amounts of money id buy one!!!
Quite right! The tyre shop I go to are very knowledgeable and trustworthy and they recognised the buckle straight away, now. To get it beaten out!!Its a fairly simple task but the people doing it just don't seem to give a f
k at all what they are doing. Tyres and wheels are the only thing contacting you to the road and with that it means they take a complete and utter beating too.
In my experience as I generally have larger size wheels on my cars (optional factory upgrades) they are very prone to being sensetive to even being 1gram out.
It used to be 20 years ago, being 5g out made no difference and a lot of garages you go to still say this!!!
Even a slight kink in an alloy can cause all sorts of issues unless its straightened out or the balancer can pile the weight on top of each other to couter it.
Its a nightmare trying to get a balancer to firstly give the wheel a good spin to check the inside and outside rim for kinks and then more importantly to balance it right.
Glad to you got it sorted in the end.
I now travel over 40 miles away to use a GSP9700 Road force balancer - if I had stupid amounts of money id buy one!!!
Evening all, whilst working out how to get my buckled wheel down to the wheel place, a friend offered me a set of wheels to keep me rolling, fitted all 4 wheels.
Shaking still persists...
So this afternoon we took the brake discs off hubs and cleaned the hubs all up AGAIN, shaking is now sometimes there sometimes not.
Tearing my hair out pistonheads, any ideas?
Shaking still persists...
So this afternoon we took the brake discs off hubs and cleaned the hubs all up AGAIN, shaking is now sometimes there sometimes not.
Tearing my hair out pistonheads, any ideas?
BAM225 said:
Evening all, whilst working out how to get my buckled wheel down to the wheel place, a friend offered me a set of wheels to keep me rolling, fitted all 4 wheels.
Shaking still persists...
So this afternoon we took the brake discs off hubs and cleaned the hubs all up AGAIN, shaking is now sometimes there sometimes not.
Tearing my hair out pistonheads, any ideas?
Possibly the steering rack? Or an issue with the power steering, have you had the system flushed out yet? Shaking still persists...
So this afternoon we took the brake discs off hubs and cleaned the hubs all up AGAIN, shaking is now sometimes there sometimes not.
Tearing my hair out pistonheads, any ideas?
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