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Suffering from a case of steering wheel wobble when goung 50mph +.

What causes this to happen? Had 2 new front tyres fitted on Thursday, but the wobble started the day before I got new tyres.

Cheers

Sounds like your tracking is out.

Rim weight has fallen off

get the rim and tyre rebalanced

As above - cured mine although I can never work out why VW didn't fit some kind of steering damper on T25s.

Getting rebalanced tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

Well, it turns out the Drivers side upper ball joint has broken which is most likely causing the steering wheel wobble. I need to drive to my mechanic which is abot 12 miles away. Is this safe or am I running the risk of something going badly wrong?

Well thats one to remember for the next time
Thanks for telling us

I would say your OK to drive it .... carefully

Got it to the garage ok. This offending ball joint was only replaced 8 weeks ago as it failed MOT.

Should be under warranty?

if were talking the suspension upper ball, surely you mean it is slack as in knakered as opposed to broken like snapped
either way I would want a quality replacement and compensation for the cost of replacing.
who's joint was it
mike

metalmick8y wrote:if were talking the suspension upper ball, surely you mean it is slack as in knakered as opposed to broken like snapped
either way I would want a quality replacement and compensation for the cost of replacing.
who's joint was it
mike

I have a receipt for the work done before and will produce it on completion of the work carried out tomorrow as a reminder. I expect this receipt will start a discussion about matters related to payment.

How succinctly put
m