[Vwdiesel] Shake at a speed + side slide

[James Hansen]

It can be either a shock, a tire, bearings, or suspension bushings.

How is the tire wear?  Just for giggles, jack them up one at a time, and 
do the tire shake as Loren suggests, but then give them a spin to check 
for wobble.  A lump of mud inside the rim can raise ten kinds of hell 
too.  A bad suspension bushing really gives bad handling, but doesn't 
cause tire shake, especially a harmonic one (that comes and goes) 
That's usually the tire or rim itself.  New tires can be bad too.

-james

Doug Presny wrote:
> Now that my 82 Rabbit car is back on the road (many thanks to all), I am
> trying to smooth out the ride.  The first problem is that the rear of
> the car has a shake which starts at 51 mph and goes away at 55 mph.  The
> alignment folks tell me that these types of things are always problems
> with the wheel/rim balance.  The new tires I have were balanced and the
> one rim that was bad was replaced.  Are there any other potential causes
> folks can think of?  
> 
>  
> 
> The second problem is a drift of the whole car that I experience at
> higher speeds when I hit a series of bumps.  The car will quickly drift
> both to the right or the left which is quite unnerving.  I just replaced
> the front struts.  The problem existed before the front struts were
> replaced.  I am assuming this problem may be alignment.  Before I have
> the car aligned, I wanted to take care of any other problems that might
> be contributing.
> 
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