hi when i drive my mark 2 punto at about 65 upto 80 the steering starts vibration?????

i have had all the wheels balenced and checked the tyre presures are corect???

just hoping someone knows what it is????

any help will be gratefully recived????


many thanks nick :worship:

Sounds stupid I know, but check the wheel bolts are tight!

To be honest, if you have had you wheels balanced, i'd take the car back and get them to check it as you still have the same problem.

Regards

ok had them balenced again by a diffrent place and its still the same, there is only 3 bolts in one of the wheels because someone broke my hub while fitting my alloys, could this be the problem??? but it has only started in the last few days????

deffinatley the problem?

has the tracking been done?
have you tried other wheels on the car?

ok traking done and new hub, still there????

any help on this would be great because its realy pissing me off now

play in the steering rack and have u had the diff checked out?

tyre presures checked by what? garage gauges and them ones on the mini compressors that plug in fag lighter are often out.

just a thought but would a worn shock cause these symptons ??

it may even be your hub bearings get a garage to check them

bin to a garage and they say its the ball joint gone??????????
would this do it??????

had it replaced picking up later wil post tomoro?

nick :worship:

NICKO_12345 said:

bin to a garage and they say its the ball joint gone??????????
would this do it??????

had it replaced picking up later wil post tomoro?

nick :worship:

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nwmlargee said:

it may even be your hub bearings get a garage to check them

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Both replaced on mine! One in August, one last week. Although it was more noise than vibration on my Mk2 8v (for anyone else's reference!).

right then, had the ball joints replaced, no change, had a new are on the front no change, had the wheels ballanced on the car no change, had the tracking don no change, anyone got any ideas now???????????? because as nice as my punto is is going to go soon if i carnt find the problem

cheers nick :worship:

sorry to hear that dint sort the problem. you have changed lots. mayeb something to do with steering colum/rack ???

the new alloys, are they the proper fitment, do they have the correct centre bore?

yeh there sound, its only just come on thought??????????

its driving me crazy

Have the hub bearings been checked as nwm suggested?

It's noticeable at higher speeds (as you're suggesting) and has a definite vibration but also noisy. In my case, the noise increased/decreased when the wheel was turned (even just slightly) when around 70mph.

One VERY easy way to check this:

Find some space (car park is good) where you can do some slow full circle turns.
Put the steering on full lock (any direction)
Drive slowly - listen for a rhythmic clunking noise
Hear anything?
If not, put the opposite lock on and listen again?

If you can hear a clunking noise, it's highly likely that one of the bearings has gone, as I said, I've had BOTH go!!!

Also - CV joint could be gone, very similar symptoms to a hub bearing apart from this will get so bad that you won't be able to ignore it. Saying that, the bearing on mine appeared almost out of nowhere and got progressively worse over just a few days to the point where it had to be sorted.

Hope this helps?