my steering wheel rattles abit when im driving straight

agressor · Post by **agressor** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:32 pm

bumps around bit but on straight tarmac roads, i dont think it always rattles but does quite a bit, also the steering alignment is out when i let go of wheel the car moves to the left abit, the handling has been getting weird aswell i think it might just be placebo effects but it feels like its handling worse, could this be that the front left tire is abit flat (not heaps) but more flat than the others or maybe my feels are about to fall off?

flat_0ut · Post by **flat_0ut** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:34 pm

wheel alignment??

AJz · Post by **AJz** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:35 pm

yeah, sounds like you need a wheel alignment man, that should fix it.

2001 Toyota Gaia · Post by **BlakJak** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:52 pm

Tyre Pressures need to be even, too. They'll cause drift...

bluemaumau · Post by **bluemaumau** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:21 am

balancing, alignment is usually side ways movement, were as balancing cuz bumpiness.

i think

KinLoud · Post by **KinLoud** » Sun May 07, 2006 5:37 am

Could be an unbalanced tyre or an out of round wheel.
Maybe swap one front tyre to the rear if it feels the same swap the other one. This will help you to work out what wheel is the problem.

Ken
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LEV_101 · Post by **LEV_101** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:13 am

can you checked your tyres ? can you see the metal things out ? :lol:

supraman_nz · Post by **supraman_nz** » Sun May 07, 2006 5:29 pm

Had the same prob just a few weeks back , i got a wheel balancing done . it sort of fixed the problem but it ended up i had to replace the front tires as they had woren up evenly and then got an aligment. So any of thoes 3 could be the cause.