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

[tim rad]

Mine will almost shake the wheel out of your hands on long sweeping RH
turns at over 80 mph.  Adjusting speed and steering wheel angle will
make it go away.  Thanks for all your ideas.  This will be printed out
and given to my mechanic once I rule out tires and wheels.

Tim

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:12:14 -0800, Gabriel Caldwell <gabriel at ts.bc.ca> wrote:
> 2nd on the sub-frame bushings, or even a missing subframe bolt.
> 
> Gabriel Caldwell
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpb3wvu at frontiernet.net [mailto:jpb3wvu at frontiernet.net]
> Sent: February 25, 2005 2:00 PM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Strange front end vibration or shaking - 94 S4
> 
> Tim,
> The same exact thing happened to my S6 except it was primarily
> when I made right hand turns at speed, especially long sweepers.
>  I neded up replacing the control arm bushings and the SUB-FRAME
> BUSHINGS.  The culprit was the sub-frame bushings, I will bet
> money that is your problem.  Make sure you or your mechanic
> orders the metal sleeve for the subframe bolt, it's a dealer
> only part and is most likely chewed up as mine was.
>  HTH
> John
> 
> > ----- Message from vader at qwest.net ---------
> >     Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:15:23 -0700
> >     From: Tim Sexton <vader at qwest.net>
> > Reply-To: Tim Sexton <vader at qwest.net>
> >  Subject: [s-cars] Strange front end vibration or shaking - 94
> S4
> >       To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> >
> > 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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