Steering vibrating

[Girlyracer]

I have just bought my first Saxo so have no experience with them. The problem I have is that as soon as i turn the steering wheel (even the slightest movement) to the right it makes a rumbling noise and vibrates slightly.

Its an east coast edition so theres no power steering.

any ideas??

[Scott]

hmmm normally steering rumbling can be simple like the wheels need balanced and tracking adjusted, but the rumbling cna come from a few things.

First check that the wheel bolts are tight. Then take it a garage to let them have a look at it, it may have a worn ball joint.

As said normally it can be associated with unbalanced wheels and tracking

[Girlyracer]

Cheers Scot , It is pulling to the right too, so will get it booked in and looked at smileys/smiley14.gif

[Scott]

if its pulling to the right that can be sorted by having the tracing adjusted and hopefully that will solve your vibrating problem smileys/happy.gif

[Enbwo]

i have the exact same problem. pulls to the right and the steering shakes at higher speeds. Balancing the alloys reduced the shaking a bit but still id there. any ideas?

[Girlyracer]

Thanks for the help but it was actually the wheel bearing, had it fixed yesterday and its fine now smileys/smiley2.gif

[JayWard]

it will def be your balancing and tracking..if u have had it done get it redun and say that ur still having problems..i work at kwik fit and no that sometimes ppl are lazy and skip a job or dont do it properly..go bak and get it sorted for nufin

[saxoytx]

sometimes it can be the tyre pressure that is causing the car to pull to the right, so check the pressure first.

[Enbwo]

i had the wheels balanced and the cars only a year old so can the tracking be out?

[Scott]

yes, even the slightest bump can knock the tracking out, doesnt need to be a lot, but when you have one feel facing one way and one slightly the other then its going to cause problems

[Hotlad00]

ma mates got a fiat bravo n his was shakin like mad n his wheel nuts sheered off resultin in the offside wheel fallin of at 20 mph, we laughed but he dint find it funny