Car help needed

[andy01424]

if you go over small bumps and you here it thumping then it could be that part or worst case upper suspension bush,what suspension leg sits on,you can check that by grabbing suspension leg and moving it see if you have movement at top,bot easy to do just pain in butt for top one,will add if you have car jacked while you are doing this shove the wheel you took off under the engine cross memeber you realy need to get a trolly jack if your going to do this

[womble]

Sorry, what I mean is the whole wheel rotates forward and backwards when jacked up, it moves alot more than it should I think. I'm not sure tbh, I've never had much to do with front wheel drive cars.

I've had to book it into my local garage anyway, I just haven't got the time to go messing around with it if I may have problems and having read a bit about the right bits being a bit hit and miss, I'll let the garage and their twice daily delivery of spare sort it out.

Plus I'm working all day tomorrow, don't have any other transport today and need the car for definite on Friday!

Thanks for all your help, but this time I'm going to let the garage do it.

[lazydog]

For the best,nothing worse than stripping something down to find the part is not right and having no transport to collect the right bit plus on the ramps they will be able to see a lot better,dont panic about the wheel being able to spin a bit if it didn't you would not be able to go around corners.

[womble]

I thought I'd update with what the problem actually was.

The n/s wishbone needed replacing and............. get this, the front o/s wheel was an oval shape, the very wheel I had balanced at the tyre place at a cost of £5. I'm not amused, I hadn't even thought to check that wheel as they had ok'd it.

The tyre firm is a long way from where I live as well, so there is no point going back there to complain. It's really well regarded as well, supposed to be the best in Peterborough.

Total cost for wishbone/fitting, tracking and moving oval wheel to spare, £200 including vat. It's a local garage I trust, although I know they aren't always the cheapest. It's the only garage I've ever been to that gives an honest MOT.
They might get my tyres from now on as well.

[Bluefish]

Not bad womble, could have cost a lot more.

[womble]

Feb 22, 2013 21:37:56 GMT Bluefish said:

Not bad womble, could have cost a lot more.

Yeah I don't think it was over the top, would have been a Citroen part as well, I've been caught out with 3rd party parts recently in the past and tbh they can be so bad, I wouldn't fit them to my MIL's car (love her really lol)

Best one was a headlight that couldn't be fitted without breaking it, I dread to think what some cars are running around with fitted to them.

[lazydog]

If the tyre place was one of the bigger ones email them showing a copy of the receipt/garage report for buckled wheel,even their main office and also a registered letter,they should of at least done a visual check and reported if there was damage dont just leave it,you where lucky but others might not be.

[womble]

No it's an independent, I wouldn't go to a chain tyre place any more.

Is it even possible to balance an oval shaped wheel?

[lynwlt]

Maybe if you fit oval shaped wheels on the other three corners????

[farzooks]

Feb 22, 2013 23:17:39 GMT womble said:

No it's an independent, I wouldn't go to a chain tyre place any more.

Is it even possible to balance an oval shaped wheel?

If you have balance weights that are so huge they swing around and lift the wheel off the tarmac when the low point is at the bottom, yes.

[womble]

Feb 23, 2013 0:01:08 GMT farzooks said:

Feb 22, 2013 23:17:39 GMT womble said:

No it's an independent, I wouldn't go to a chain tyre place any more.

Is it even possible to balance an oval shaped wheel?

If you have balance weights that are so huge they swing around and lift the wheel off the tarmac when the low point is at the bottom, yes.

Could you explain that? I read that as if it's impossible to balance an oval wheel?