Shaky steering on my Astra?

invincibleirish

Hi there, i sent my car for a service yesterday, got it back last night and when i was driving along the N25 in Cork and moving up the gears when i went into 5th the steering wheel started vibrating intensely, i wasnt tearing it i was keeping to the 100km limit, i would not have been able to go any faster due to the vibrating!

Car is a 99 Astra 1.4!

bazz26

Was the vibration there before the car was serviced?

What was done to the car as part of the service? I.e. Were the tyres rotated back to front?

I ask this because it sounds to me like the tyre balancing is off. There are little metal weights on the wheels to counter act vibration from the tyres. The tyres could have been rotated front to back by your mechanic/garage to stretch the life of your tyres but they may not have rebalanced them.

Any tyre centre like Advanced Pitstop or Kwik Fit can balance your tyres for you. They usually charge around €10 to €15 per tyre.

invincibleirish

Yeah i had new tyres put on, sounds most likely tis the balancing, cheers for info!

crosstownk

bazz26 wrote: »

The tyres could have been rotated front to back by your mechanic/garage to stretch the life of your tyres but they may not have rebalanced them.

Sounds like the most likely reason.

But, if there was imbalance before the wheels were rotated then there should have been a similar vibration coming through the car. That said, rear wheel imbalance is less noticeable than front wheel imbalance as the 'steering shake' makes front wheel imbalance much more prominent.

So as bazz stated - take it to a tyre centre and have all four wheels rebalanced - that should sort things out.

crosstownk

invincibleirish wrote: »

Yeah i had new tyres put on, sounds most likely tis the balancing, cheers for info!

Just seen this post as I posted my reply - yeah, definitely a balance issue. Go back to them and explain the problem - it should take about 15 mins in total for them to rectify.