- Joined
- Dec 25, 2002
- Location
- mont, AL
So I've got a bit of a head scratcher here with my v70r (p2ARR)
Back in late november, on the way home from out of town I noticed (in a bit of a delirious sleep deprived state) the car suddenly developed a vibration that was felt coming from the front passenger side, and could be felt in the steering wheel. I thought I'd ran over something and maybe the tire was going flat or had developed a goose egg, that sort of thing. No dice. tire/wheel looked fine. Vibration seemed to peak around 60 and start to go away above that, and eventually it just kinda went away.
Next few weeks, car was fine around town, nothing remarkable, then one morning on the way to work (around xmas time, no kid) I pulled off of a stop light and around 40mph the car felt like it was going to shake itself apart. Again, felt like it was coming from the passenger side. Google indicates vibrations driving tend to be related to the axles, and of course I had to deal with the infamous passenger side axle. New axle was installed about 2 weeks ago, drove it around a little, problem seemed to be resolved,yay (Oh, and when I was taking out the old axle, it very easily separated at the inner joint, which lead me to believe it'd already internally fallen apart). Drove it to work, was fine. Drove it home, called hockey930 and casually mentioned I thought the vibration was back, but to a much lower extent (and wondered if perhaps I was just imagining it)
Weeeell I wasn't. it came back with a vengeance, accompanied by a metallic rotational click. dammit. Had some other irons on the fire that precluded looking at it, finally got it up on the ramps last night to look for something that I felt like should be *VERY* obvious. nothing. nothing was loose, nothing would tug, nothing made anyhing approaching a metallic noise. Jacked it up, wheel does not move in any odd directions (not any more than the driver's side wheel, checked that too), Axle is not flopping around in there, no missing hardware on any of the suspension that I can tell (and I'd just had it apart to replace the axle, everything got the once over and it all looked decent enough).
the vibration *feels* like either a belt separated in the tire (but this is not obvious, and the tires are maybe a year and a half old, not bald nor really abused), or what I imagine a wheel with a broken tie rod end might feel like, that was rapidly flopping in and out (the car does not seem to pull when this happens, but again I tugged on the tie rod end specifically... may be about time for a new driver's side one, but the passenger side one seemed fine).
Wheel is not loose, struts are about a year and a half old.
thoughts? I'm really not sure what it could be.
Back in late november, on the way home from out of town I noticed (in a bit of a delirious sleep deprived state) the car suddenly developed a vibration that was felt coming from the front passenger side, and could be felt in the steering wheel. I thought I'd ran over something and maybe the tire was going flat or had developed a goose egg, that sort of thing. No dice. tire/wheel looked fine. Vibration seemed to peak around 60 and start to go away above that, and eventually it just kinda went away.
Next few weeks, car was fine around town, nothing remarkable, then one morning on the way to work (around xmas time, no kid) I pulled off of a stop light and around 40mph the car felt like it was going to shake itself apart. Again, felt like it was coming from the passenger side. Google indicates vibrations driving tend to be related to the axles, and of course I had to deal with the infamous passenger side axle. New axle was installed about 2 weeks ago, drove it around a little, problem seemed to be resolved,yay (Oh, and when I was taking out the old axle, it very easily separated at the inner joint, which lead me to believe it'd already internally fallen apart). Drove it to work, was fine. Drove it home, called hockey930 and casually mentioned I thought the vibration was back, but to a much lower extent (and wondered if perhaps I was just imagining it)
Weeeell I wasn't. it came back with a vengeance, accompanied by a metallic rotational click. dammit. Had some other irons on the fire that precluded looking at it, finally got it up on the ramps last night to look for something that I felt like should be *VERY* obvious. nothing. nothing was loose, nothing would tug, nothing made anyhing approaching a metallic noise. Jacked it up, wheel does not move in any odd directions (not any more than the driver's side wheel, checked that too), Axle is not flopping around in there, no missing hardware on any of the suspension that I can tell (and I'd just had it apart to replace the axle, everything got the once over and it all looked decent enough).
the vibration *feels* like either a belt separated in the tire (but this is not obvious, and the tires are maybe a year and a half old, not bald nor really abused), or what I imagine a wheel with a broken tie rod end might feel like, that was rapidly flopping in and out (the car does not seem to pull when this happens, but again I tugged on the tie rod end specifically... may be about time for a new driver's side one, but the passenger side one seemed fine).
Wheel is not loose, struts are about a year and a half old.
thoughts? I'm really not sure what it could be.