It can be felt through the steering wheel and mostly at motorway speeds. The whole car seems to be jittery. Its started happening in the last 4 weeks or so.

Its not really obvious or aggressive but just in the back ground.

It was worse the other night when increasing speed on a curved section of bypass 60 - 80 mph

Now i have researched this but not found an obvious answer. The wheels are all balanced. So i was wondering if its the dog bone mount or wheel alignment problems. Going to check for play in the beaings this weekend.

Hope i have described it well enough for someone to help me solve the issue.

Please help

PS its a VRS diesel

Bearings tend to grumble rather than vibrate. I would take a punt and say that the wheels were not balanced properly but you say have checked that.

I have the same problem on my mk1. I susspect its something to do with the suspension or baaljoint/link arms etc.

I'm investigating further ATM but I think I will have to wait until it becomes an actual problem to solve it.

My first thought would be balance but you have checked that, Could possibly be a buckled wheel or tyre going out of shape, both would balance up OK. Have you hit any big potholes etc recently, the wheel will usually buckle on the inside un supported edge so wont be visible from the outside. If you can swap the wheels front to back & it changes then you have identified its something wheel / tyre related.

Wheel alignment or mis alignment should cause vibration, just uneven tyre wear or poor directional handling.

It may help the more technical minded if you add how many miles the car has done as certain problems appera with age / mileage

I assume you havent used tyre weld in the tyres at any point to fix a puncture, that can be fine for a few days but the residuwe can settle if tghe car stands for a while & throw it out of balance

I have already swapped tyres front to back but that didnt seem to change anything and that was after having them all balanced.

Funny you should mention tyre weld, i added a can a while back to help solve a slow puncture that wheel was on the back but now on the front. But the probelm was obvious prior to the wheels being swapped.

I did hit a big pothole a while back but just thought it had knocked the wheel off balance but this has already been dealt with.

Further info on the car, vrs diesel estate, 2007 with 58,000 miles.

More ideas would be great and if anyone has had similar problems please let me know how you resolved the issue.

May get the tyre will tyre weld in taken off and checked.

If things didnt change when you moved the wheels around I guess that rules out a wheel / tyre problem

You would have thought so. Might get the fronts rebalanced just to totally totally rule it out.

Sounds like tyres to me. I've never used tyre weld on a car but I know it causes horrific imbalance in bicycle tyres.

If the problem is on the front wheels/tyres you would normally get shaking through the steering wheel at speed. If the back wheels/tyres are the problem then this tends to cause whole car vibration when you get up to speed. You could swap the fronts with the rears and see if this is the case.

Balljoints and track rod ends etc. need to be completely screwed before you get any significant vibration so focus on the rotating components, particularly the big heavy ones at the end of each axle.

Did you get all 4 wheels balanced???

you could also check the shockers are not on the way out or for a broken spring

Came across this as my Octavia II Scout TDI with 13000 ( only 12 months old ) on the clock has the same background vibration through the steering wheel.

Skoda said it was nothing to worry about

I got the car checked by a tyre specialist and the tracking, geometry was done and the front wheel rebalanced.

There is feathering on the inside edge for the front tyres.

Its going back to skoda this week for them to investigate

As I also had the vibration increase on a right hand dual carriageway bend

Edited 11 June, 201115 yr by 6nations

Came across this as my Octavia II Scout TDI with 13000 ( only 12 months old ) on the clock has the same background vibration through the steering wheel.

Skoda said it was nothing to worry about

I got the car checked by a tyre specialist and the tracking, geometry was done and the front wheel rebalanced.

There is feathering on the inside edge for the front tyres.

Its going back to skoda this week for them to investigate

As I also had the vibration increase on a right hand dual carriageway bend

Please let me know how you get on as it would be a great help if your issue is solved.

Cheers to other peoples responses and suggestions. Will keep you posted. Not been able to do anything this weekend due to the weather. :(

Well finally found out the problem

1. Front tyres had developed feathering on inside edge - initially had them rebalanced and tracking done but vibration was still there - so have now moved rears to front and had new tyres to rear

2. Tyre centre has found quite a few cars both 4x4 and F / R drive that have vibration through the steering that would normally be from front tyres ( as rear balance normally causes through the car vibraton ) but is actually due to rear tyre issues

Have stuck with Dunlop Sp Sport 01 - was going to go for Bridgestone but Bridgestone Tech stated best to stay with OEM

Therefore if you have a Scout check your rear wheel balance if you have steering wheel vibration

Looking around at winter tyres and wahst out there - for my rims 225/50 R17 94W or might get a set of steels

Thanks for all your comments

Blast

Thought I'd got it sorted but the other day early morning cold start a lot of vibration through the steering

Also had it later in the day when the car had been sat in the sun

Seems to be more noticable at around 60 - 65 either accelerating or deccelerating and also in bends

Off for another test drive tomorrow with dealer

Do hope to find cause as its killing my enjoyment fo the Scout

As its gone from a smooth drive to a drive with this vibration through the steering wheel

Tyre centre I use said it might be a steering rack issue or a faulty ABS controller??????