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Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« on: May 22, 2012, 07:26:56 pm »
Hi all,
My car has developed a problem. Whenever I accelerate hard my steering wheel vibrates quite badly, when off the throttle it behaves normally. I'm thinking the cv joints have gone but if anyone has any other explanation fire away. There are no splits in the cv boots and no knocking when turning.
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Re: Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2012, 08:02:56 pm »
Have u checked that all yr wheels are correctly balanced??
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Re: Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2012, 08:17:55 pm »
I'm quite sure it's not the wheels as it doesn't do it when coasting. All my searches point to the replacement of the cv joint being the cure
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Re: Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2012, 08:24:41 pm »
Was just a thought, I had exactly the same problem, checked how the wheels were balanced and they were well out! Got them rebalanced, bang, problem solved!
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Re: Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2012, 08:38:49 pm »
Quote from: gigolo456 on May 22, 2012, 08:24:41 pm
Was just a thought, I had exactly the same problem, checked how the wheels were balanced and they were well out! Got them rebalanced, bang, problem solved!
Did yours only do it when accelerating?
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Re: Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2012, 09:03:16 pm »
Yeap, every time I joined a motorway off a sliproad, gave it sum right foot and I cud feel the steering wheel shudder, and the wheels 2 a certain extent!
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Re: Steering wheel vibration when accelerating.
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2012, 09:16:18 pm »
I'll get it checked out :happy2:
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