Strange vibration at motorway speeds - Saxperience

CbVtR · 12th July 2010, 21:23

Ok heres the crack,
I was driving home last week when I noticed my car started to shake at low speeds and even worse as i started to speed up, so I pulled over to have a look i could'nt see anything obvious so I slowly drove home probably around 2 miles.
The next day I jacked the front up and span both wheels, the passenger side was fine, but as I spun the drivers side wheel it would spin half way then slow down and basicly stop, as if the brake disc were badly warped or somthing.
I got underneath the car and span the wheel again then realised that the driveshaft was completly locked into a sort of 20 degree angle so that when I spun the wheel a complete 360 degrees it pushed the whole engine towards the passeger side by about 3 inches. The driveshaft was completly shagged so I thought out with the old and in with the new and went and brought a brand new one and fitted it no problems, new gearbox oil blah blah,,

now for the problem, at motorway speeds 50-70mph and under braking from them speeds I get a vibration through the steering wheel and all three pedals, could I have damaged the engine mounts or gearbox mounts by driving it home.
Any help welcomed.

CbVtR · 12th July 2010, 21:24

sorry for the essay but I wanted to be clear on the problem lol

BobC^m · 12th July 2010, 21:27

Hi,

At speed and whilst braking - says a warped disk to me.

Azzybonjela · 12th July 2010, 21:34

+1 on this

hufc_tom · 12th July 2010, 21:39

probably wheel balanced mates, happend to me a few weeks ago, got them balanced and now wheel doesnt click/vibrate when going 50+ only cost a fiver too

CbVtR · 12th July 2010, 22:12

Cheers for the quick replys guys, both of these problems did also cross my mind warped disc and wheel balancing, but this problem didn't exist before the driveshaft went, going to jack it up again and check the rear engine mount for play on the weekend, and go from there, thanks again for the help

Jas_saxo · 12th July 2010, 23:22

are you ment to get vibrations on the gas pedal at speeds of like 60mph lol
some one answer my noobism

LaurenceVTR · 13th July 2010, 07:35

If you've shagged the driveshaft then you coulda lost some wheel weights in the process of doing it (going over potholes, raggging it etc) Get the wheels all rebalanced up and if it continues then have a look at the disks

CbVtR · 3rd August 2010, 14:21

Ok guys I'm bringing up an old thread as I don't want to start a new one, I still have this vibration, I've listened to everybodys comments and this is what I've done so far,, got the wheels balanced, put new wishbones and drop links on about 3-4 months ago, changed all three engine mounts, a new drivers side drivshaft and put new discs and pads on. Still have the same problem as described in the first post, driving me mad!! Any body got any ideas?

CbVtR · 3rd August 2010, 18:35

nobody got any ideas at all, could this be somthing to do with the top mounts, every now and then I can hear a knock from the front, but not very often,

chinkostu · 3rd August 2010, 18:39

diff? mine did this then the diff blew itself up. not pretty!

engine rocking like a mofo?

CbVtR · 3rd August 2010, 19:04

na not really, its def supension realated, not long had a recon box put on it, my brother works at a citroen dealer, very cheap parts

im going to try changing the top mounts as it does knock a couple of times on my way to work, and a bit unsteady braking from speed 50/60mph