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Hi all
Son has several months old T3.
According to him, it was driving like on glass, until 3 weeks back.
He did tire rotation about 2 or so month ago.
He did cross rotation.
3 weeks ago he noticed a repetitive shudder felt in the front and steering.
I drove car yesterday on various roads. Wavy, smooth, inclines, declines, regular speeds and FWY.
I can confirm that indeed, there is noticeable but faint shudder, about 3 times, every about 10 or so seconds.
3 times it was very pronounced, entire front and steering wheel shuddered violently. That reminded me of infamous Chevy trucks death wobble, related to bad idler and Pitman. .
So far, son had 2 technicians come over and inspect the car. One came with balancer and stated that all tires are balanced. The other tech argued that tires were not properly rotated and car is rumbling due to changed lugs direction. Same tech said that there is no foam inside Michelins on the car - there is. They took one tire apart and foam was inside. That made my son believe that that tech is not quite well verse on the matters.
That said, I work on my cars since 1990 and am pretty good at diagnosing shakes and vibrations.
I can confirm that there is a faint but very annoying cyclic shudder in the front lower end. That shudder may turn very pronounced without any pattern and at various speeds.
Son says it does it primarily at 45mph. Not my observation and I drove car for about an hour yesterday.
I have theory that one of the foam blocks delaminated inside and is bouncing, causing disbalance. That's my theory. Or, he has ripped cord of delaminated tire with mild hump in it.
Anyone else experienced similar?
Son has several months old T3.
According to him, it was driving like on glass, until 3 weeks back.
He did tire rotation about 2 or so month ago.
He did cross rotation.
3 weeks ago he noticed a repetitive shudder felt in the front and steering.
I drove car yesterday on various roads. Wavy, smooth, inclines, declines, regular speeds and FWY.
I can confirm that indeed, there is noticeable but faint shudder, about 3 times, every about 10 or so seconds.
3 times it was very pronounced, entire front and steering wheel shuddered violently. That reminded me of infamous Chevy trucks death wobble, related to bad idler and Pitman. .
So far, son had 2 technicians come over and inspect the car. One came with balancer and stated that all tires are balanced. The other tech argued that tires were not properly rotated and car is rumbling due to changed lugs direction. Same tech said that there is no foam inside Michelins on the car - there is. They took one tire apart and foam was inside. That made my son believe that that tech is not quite well verse on the matters.
That said, I work on my cars since 1990 and am pretty good at diagnosing shakes and vibrations.
I can confirm that there is a faint but very annoying cyclic shudder in the front lower end. That shudder may turn very pronounced without any pattern and at various speeds.
Son says it does it primarily at 45mph. Not my observation and I drove car for about an hour yesterday.
I have theory that one of the foam blocks delaminated inside and is bouncing, causing disbalance. That's my theory. Or, he has ripped cord of delaminated tire with mild hump in it.
Anyone else experienced similar?