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Omega General Help / Re: Vibration at 70 - 80 and beyond (cough)

« on: 30 August 2007, 10:35:09 »

The disks, hmm - yes I had thought of that, I will check them too. My wife's old fiesta Auto went through a set every six months.
(Something to do with a faulty gearbox Valve, meaning the 'creep' was almost the equivalent to to a racing start)

Couldn't get shot of it quick enough. (Not sure I want to know about your bush though)

TVT

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Omega General Help / Re: Vibration at 70 - 80 and beyond (cough)

« on: 29 August 2007, 15:15:53 »

OK, thanks again for all the replies, this is what I'm going to do -

1. Take the spare and replace each wheel in turn and run it up the MWay to 70 (it's only around the corner so it wont take long.

2. Look for an outlet that balances wheels on the car or a specialist alignment centre (like rocking horse droppings I suspect)

3. Wait until I need new tyres - not long now

4. Start looking at replacing bits and pieces.

Like many of you, I'm almost certain that it's some kind of wheel related problem like balancing.

This will be done as soon as I can and I'll update the thread asap

Cheers

TVT

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Omega General Help / Re: Vibration at 70 - 80 and beyond (cough)

« on: 27 August 2007, 22:34:45 »

Thanks very much for the responses guys, I must say I do like this site!

The vibration is at the wheels as far as I can tell, knocking it into neutral and slowing the drive train down made no difference so I'm guessing it is wheels/geometry etc and not the propshaft or the engine (it was a Mercedes mechanic that suggested that, so don't shoot) but what do I know.

There is no noise associated with the vibration and thankfully it isn't violent, just enough to be a pain and spoil things. Windows were not open but the the sunroof has been in a variety of positions, including closed, so that isolates that I think, on that subject though I do get lots of 'turbulent' air in the cabin with the roof fully open, so I generally keep it one or two clicks towards closed, depending on speed.

Yes Davlad22, I did read http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1188219855/0, thanks for that - I would add that the car passed an MOT about two weeks ago, but keep em coming and I'm not discounting anything, if there's any left of course

Thanks again.

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Omega General Help / Vibration at 70 - 80 and beyond (cough)

« on: 27 August 2007, 14:04:15 »

Hi Guys,

I have a W reg 2.5 Elite Estate with a vibration problem, I've had the car for just over 2 years and have added probably 8000 miles in that time (yes 8k). In total it has done around 49k.

The vibration has always been there I suppose but because of the low miles I've never really been that concerned but it is now becoming an annoyance and is spoiling what otherwise would be a lovely car.

This is what I've done so far to address the prob - wheels balanced about 4 times at different outlets (all of which seem to have their own idea and say whoever did it last was a plonker), Tracking done once, rears on front with new rubber. I'm at the point now where I need to use the car more frequently but don't want to chase the problem around my bank balance. The wheels are the 5 spoke alloys that seem quite popular with you guys and I'm told none are buckled and there are no bulges on tyres.

Can one of you kind souls give me a bullet point list in order of likely cause so that I can take a sensible and economic approach - thank you.

Incidentally, I did search the forums and didn't really see anything that pinpointed the prob.

I put the car in neutral briefly and the vibration was still there and no, the vibration cannot be driven through, at least without seriously upsetting our wonderful Police, so I only went so far.

Many thanks, TVT

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Newbie Welcome Area / Just popped in to say hello

« on: 23 August 2007, 11:50:25 »

Hi all,

Quite a community here, I registered to try to identify a problem but I'll read the forums before I ask daft questions.

Some good sound info here too, glad I took the trouble

TVT