Re: inner & outer tie rod ends bent
- From: kludge@xxxxxxxxx (Scott Dorsey)
- Date: 23 Jul 2008 15:43:43 -0400
MTED <mtedeschi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Volvo C70 that I bought, used, 1 year ago.
Because of some vibrations you can feel driving at 60 - 70 MPH, I
decided to have my car checked for wheel balance and alignment.
The garage is well known for doing, usually, a good job.
They did the wheel balance part. But they did not do the alignement
part because they found the inner and outer rod ends bent, and I need
to fix this before the alignment.
Excellent! Now you know there's a problem and what it is.
The estimate is around 500$.
I'm driving the car after the wheel balance and I think it is
improved, but I can still feel the same vibration I had before, maybe
a little less.
That's because nothing was done for it, and if you don't do something
about it, you will wind up ruining your tires.
My question: do you think that fixing the inner and outer rod ends
(and the alignement) would take care of the vibration?
Maybe. But it something you need to do immediately, because if you don't
do it first, you will have no chance of finding any other problems.
If the rods are bent, the vehicle cannot be aligned, and if the vehicle
cannot be aligned, you can do no real diagnosis on the problem.
I'm just afraid of spending 500$ on a car that i like but that has
160K, and then discover that the problem is still there....
Would you rather spend $500 on a new set of tires every year instead?
Fix the damn thing. 160k is not a lot of mileage for these cars. When
you get two or three times that, then you can start worrying.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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