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My next thing to look at are the brakes, in particular the rears, as after a 15
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If anyone can help on this I'd be really grateful.
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Cheers,
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Henry
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hkwc104 wrote:Is this an indication of sticking rear calipers and can the rear calipers cause the steering to vibrate intermittently at motorway speeds or would that only be caused by the front calipers sticking?
If anyone can help on this I'd be really grateful.
Cheers,
Henry
hkwc104 wrote:
Marf, will take the wheels and discs off tonight and check whether there's any warping of the hub.
hkwc104 wrote:
Jan, if it is the calipers(which I suspect it is) then I'm either going to get them stripped down and rebuilt or replaced with refurbed items as you suggest.
Do you happen to know where to get a good refurbed set from?
Moo wrote:In my experience most of these tyre centres can't balance a wheel to save their lives.You'd think it would be a simple task as the machine does everything for them and all they have to do is stick the weight on where it tells them to but 9 times out of 10 you see them move the wheel from where the machine wants the weight to go and they end up sticking it on somewhere else.
It may only be a little bit off but it's enough to give you a wheel wobble.
I remember a few years ago I could not get my new wheels balanced for love nor money and lost count of the times I had them checked, re-checked and balanced multiple times by multiple garages.
None of them could get it right.
There was even one place who managed to give me a balance that made me feel like I was on square wheels from 40mph upward.
It was so bad I could hardly hang onto the steering wheel at anything above 60mph but they insisted the wheels were balanced, even after taking them out for a test drive! A lot of the equipment these garages use for wheel balancing aren't calibrated properly and of those that are, the monkey doing the job doesn't do it right.
After many months of trying to get rid of this wheel wobble I took the car to Elite in Rainham and had a go on their road force balancing machine which applies a roller to the wheel when it's spinning to simulate what's happening on the road.It can also measure the runoff and tell you if the wheel is buckled or the tyre is out of shape.
It can also detect heavy sports on the rim/tyre and tell you if the tyre needs rotating on the rim.
It was quite pricey compared to a normal wheel balancer but it showed up that my wheels were horribly out of balance and that 3 tyres needed rotating on the rim.
They did all this and balanced it up spot on.
No more wheel wobble.
If you're sure your suspension components are ok then I do yourself a favour and get yourself up to Elite for a wheel balance and laser alignment.The money you keep chucking at the local monkeys would be better spent at a decent place who actually know what they are doing!
It's a bit of a trek for you but worth bearing in mind.
http://www.elitedirect.com/
If you do go to Elite get them to put Dino's settings in for your alignment![]()
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hkwc104 wrote:Also got a sneak peak of your car when I was up at Luke's the other day.Can't wait to see what the finished car will look like!