steering wheel judder

Wheel balancing most likely.

Tab ( snipped-for-privacy@btopenworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Swap the front and rear wheels over - if the shaking moves from your hands to your backside, it's simply wheel balance.

If not, there's something amiss that you need to get checked out.

Tracking, Wheel Balance or bushes could all cause this, does it vibrate when braking as the disks could be warped .

Try Balancing/Tracking first as probably cheapest and likeliest causes.

Graham

Tab.

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Tracking? Really? I can see how worn bushes might cause it and at the same time allow the steering geometry to be wrong at the same time, but not tracking being the /cause/ of vibration.

Could this be part of the same thing?

Tab

Under warranty, take it back. Unless you hit the curb it should be covered

If it is a manufacturers warranty from new, then it will be covered, unless the cause is driver error, such as the car having been kerbed..

As it's under warranty I guess you bought it recently. Had it been standing on the garage forecourt for months, as some tyres are prone to permanently deforming if left in one position like this. This would cause your vibration. I've had this problem and the only fix is new tyres. Your squeal is probably harmless if the car brakes OK, new brake pads and a clean up and copper grease would probably fix that.

You may have hit on the reason there Steve,my car was a pre reg.and was almost year old before I got it so had been sitting somewhere for a long time.Will see what the garage has to say about it on Monday.

If you have the habit of hitting the kerb when parking then may just be a mis-shapen tire because the strengthening wire inside the tyre has broken.

It happened to me, but I dint hit the kerb as much now.

- DJ Crazy Frog

I suppose it might be less susceptible on new cars but try telling that to my old Marina. Maxi, and Austin 1800.

Until I got the tracking right on these, the steering would wobble at around

Chesr

Grahanm

Tab