Shaking/Rattling at high speeds in my Hyundai Accent

Wheel balance or worn track control arm bushes for the shaking. Seized caliper for the brake imbalance.

Yes. Because they're not fitted as standard and can make it more nickable/improve performance.

sounds like wheel balance, go to national car tyres or whatever it's called, they can do each wheel for £11. just do the front, had the same thing not long ago. Also, if you leave it for too long, you will wear out the tyre in question.

AFK

There are many possible causes of your shake: Wrong wheels, damaged wheels, wheels incorrectly fitted, faulty tyres, worn suspension parts, worn steering parts etc.. I agree that your cheapest first step is to get a rebalance done, if you are a Costco member this is only a tenner for all four, most places will charge about a fiver a wheel or more. The tyre fitter should notice if there is anything else amiss, especially if you explain the problem to him first.

Any modification from standard should be notified to your insurers, it is a clause you have agreed to by taking out the insurance. It is so they can adjust their premiums or decline to insure you, as they see fit, to their benefit. Failure to notify COULD invalidate your insurance (unlikely in general terms)

Mrcheerful

Thanks for your replies, just took it to my nearest budget tyre place, replaced a tyre for £35 new + £15 for balancing the other 3. The guy told me the alloys are bent and proper balancing is impossible, he put the worst to the rear of the car, told me new alloys were needed otherwise I would have to put up with the shake at high speed.

Sounds like a professional tyre fitter - a decent local co did the same for me when I bought some tyres a few months ago - they even pointed me towards ebay where I managed to buy a replacement alloy for a tenner!

I can highly recommend steel wheels as they take far more abuse to bend them, especially with today's roads being full of speed bumps.

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You're driving too fast !

They are also noticeably lighter compared to typical boy-racer alloys.

If you go that route, ISTR somebody on here talking about selling the duff alloys (minus tyres) for scrap for a decent amount of money...

hehe "Colin Wilson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net...

Why? i drive at 130 often, if the conditions allow, sometimes i drive at 20, if thats what the conditions dictate

I bent a 18inch alloy after owning the car 1 day, hit a huge pot hole with sharp edges, bent the inside...council paid up with threatof court action

my local tyre fitter showed me a massive pile of bent alloy wheels, it seems most have the spokes on the outside, but inside no strenth

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Yep, you need help.

So they can laugh at you.

Oh, and so they don't try to welch out of paying a claim.

Thanks for the comments/sarcasm, after getting the wheel balanced, ther eis no visible steering shake and the 1.3 engines is good for 110. Cheers

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We normally use MPH in this country, not KM/H.

Thats funny, I live in London, That is 110MPH, I dont deal with Km/h either.

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I think you may need to get both your speedo and your sense of humour recalibrated. You'll need both to be in full working order if you're planning on tooling about in a chavved-up Hyundai.

That is not my purpose for buying it. I needed a smaller car to drive to and from work so as to save on fuel costs, 80 miles round trip. I set out to buy a mondeo/astra diesel, I never saw anything in my budget, that. I see this advertised on the net, checked out mpg figures from whatcar site and decided to have a look at it,, it was a good price, engine purrs nicely, low 75000 miles on the clock, so I purchased it. My intention was to find a cheap runaround, appearance was not really important, just rust free bodywork, which I have found, I'm 35 years and not at all into sports cars and the like but I do find it nippy and its a low £60 for tax, on the road for under £500. You can say what you want but it serves my purpose down to the ground. Good afternoon

Maybe going for the 35 profile tyres while still leaving the 13" wheels on could explain the 110mph reading?

Let's have a look...

standard: 175/70x13, rolling circumference 1754mm

chavved: 175/35x13, rolling circumference 1381mm

So for an indicated 110mph, we have an actual top speed of... wait for it...

= 86.6mph!

That's about right, I'd say. With a following wind.

I could have told you what the expected real life MPG would be -

Er try 195/65 r14