I'd welcome the groups advice on this one:
'92 Disco I Tdi 200:
At 65mph the steering wheel shakes and rattles dangerously. The whole front of the car rattles like a shopping trolley, steering is difficult. It does this if I hit a small bump which seems to set it oscillating.
Here's the history:
New springs shocks and damper recently. All tyres are pretty new. Wheels balanced. Fronts put to rear, balanced again. Tracking OK. Mechanics have checked steering joints and pre-loads ( twice at my insistence!) -all OK.
When I had the fronts balanced one required 90g of correction but the problem was the same. When I swapped the fronts and rears over there was no change but when I balanced the fronts there was a very very slight improvement in that it requires a slightly bigger bump to set it off. I'm not sure if the front left and right were swapped when the balanced it or not.
Oddly, there was a slight change of the position of the steering wheel when the fronts went to the back. The steering wheel requires being set slightly off centre to the right to drive straight.
Any thoughts?
TonyB
The tyres originally on the front were Pirelli Scorpio's and the original rears are Kwikfits own brand.