[s-cars] Strange front end vibration or shaking - 94 S4

[Robert Myers]

Symptom: severe shaking at RF corner during high speed left hand 
sweepers.  Rebalance the RF wheel/tire (or all of them).  This solved the 
problem when it happened to me.

At 04:15 PM 2/25/2005, Tim Sexton wrote:

>Hello All,
>    When making left hand turns at speeds of greater than 75 mph, the 
> front end on my 94 S4 begins to vibrate/shake fairly violently.  It feels 
> like it originates somewhere in the front right suspension.  The car has 
> new tie rods and control arms and I've lifted the wheel off the ground 
> and can see no visible play anywhere in the suspension when physically 
> moving the tire in various directions.  I've also rotated the tires and 
> still get the same bad vibration/shaking.
>    I was searching through the archives and saw a few other posts with 
> the same symptoms, but didn't ever find if anyone had come up with a 
> solution.   I'm wondering if it's a bad wheel bearing, but I'm guessing 
> that if the wheel bearing was that bad, the noise would be pretty loud 
> and I'd be able to detect it when moving the tire with the suspension off 
> the ground.  Any ideas, or did any of the other guys with the same issue 
> ever find the culprit?
>Thanks for the help,
>Tim Sexton
>
>Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Bob
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