[s-cars] Good news - bad noose

[Robert Myers]

At 06:04 PM 4/26/2005, Serge Filanovsky wrote:

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>Assuming good radar protection, driving above 95 mph sounds like the easiest
>solution.

Good suggestion.  The V1 works pretty well.  :-)


>Other than your own list I would also suspect
>
>5. Balance of wheel/tire

Off a little but no weights are missing since the last rebalancing about 
three weeks ago.

>6. Flat spot on tire

Possibility but it wasn't obvious when the wheel was off the car this 
afternoon.

>7. Bent wheel

They looked to run true when balancing them three weeks ago.

>8. Bad wheel bearing

No unpleasant bearing noises from that direction.  ???


>HTH
>
>Serge Filanovsky
>
>95.5 S6 Avant
>
>
>
> >
> > Hi Y'all,
> >
> > Suspecting a blown RF strut cartridge I pulled mine (Bilstein HD).  I
> > pulled out mu trusty BFPW and found I needed a BiggerFPW.  A four foot
> > piece of pipe took care of that.
> >
> > The good news - the cartridge and the strut bearing both appear to be OK.
> >
> > The bad news - the problem leading me to look at the cartridge wasn't
> > caused by the cartridge which could have been replaced under warranty.
> >
> > The problem: a severe shimmy in the RF wheel/tire (it feels almost to be
> > airborne about once each revolution) during a high speed (85-90 mph) left
> > sweeper.  There is also a slight imbalance in that spot which can be felt
> > slightly at highway speeds.  The frequency of the imbalance vibrations
> > closely matches the shimmy frequency.  The shimmy goes away if I slow down
> > to 80 or below or accelerate to 95 or above.  My thinking was that a blown
> > strut might be failing to dampen out the vibration when at the natural
> > resonance frequency for the setup.
> >
> > Other possible problems might be:
> >
> > 1.      tie rod ends
> > 2.      ball joint
> > 3.      subframe bushings
> > 4.      lower control arm bushing
> >
> > Getting in there with a pry bar and seeing if anything moves more than what
> > might be appropriate gave me no clues.
> >
> > The bushings are all original ~ ten years old and have traveled nearly 220K
> > miles.
> >
> > What have I overlooked?  Any suggestions?
> >
> >
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