Anybody experienced the following?

slight wheel wobble and feedback through steering when accelerating from fairly low speed, generally from about 20mph to 50mph then feathers out and is fine. It's really annoying and car has just spent two days in dealers who to be fair tried their best to identify the problem. Car is fine other than this annoying extra feature which did not come as standard.

Car is 2010 VRs 2.0 TDI with DSG covered 55k (all by me) and full service history, just had all four corners balanced and which were marginally out and swapped backs to front.......

Cheers

Sounds like a bog standard wheel bearing problem to me?

Something trapped between the wheel and the face of what it bolts onto? Bad balancing? I'd have thought this would be an easy one for the dealers to troubleshoot..

I'd put your spare on the front left then the front right see if there's a difference.

Something trapped between the wheel and the face of what it bolts onto? Bad balancing? I'd have thought this would be an easy one for the dealers to troubleshoot..

I'd put your spare on the front left then the front right see if there's a difference.

Thanks chaps, all been checked and wheels from a different VRs were actually tried, but dealers said they could not identify, Skoda tech are now involved so we will see. I may end up having to live with the problem but as I said before dealers did try their best and a smiley face sticker for the master tech......

Has it had its DSG oil changed?

Has it had its DSG oil changed?

Yep

Wheel balancing?

Wheel balancing?

All done as said....very puzzling, hey ho so it could be just my car ?

Balancing might have been done badly?

Torque steer issue ?

Has the hub runout been checked?

Inner CV joint?

Has the hub runout been checked!

I'm liking your answer Martin, this actually makes sense to me, having looked at all of the obvious hub runout would be next on the list.

Cheers buddy for the suggestion

Suspension geometry been checked (properly, not just using basic dealer-spec equipment).

Sounds like a car setup issue somewhere, if you've tried another set of wheels.

Hello, did you find a answer to the wobble as my vrs started the same wobble whilst on holiday in North Devon this week. I have a common rail diesel dsg vrs on a 58 plate and noticed a slow wobble not vibration or shake on accelerating. This wobble is noticeable mainly around the 35/40mph mark in 4th gear (dsg) and more pronounced uphill. This wobble is the whole car not through the stearing wheel. Any ideas would be appreciated. Chris

I had similar on an old '55 plate 1.9TDi Octavia at work. The garage could not find the source. I could also feel it through the centre console (my left leg rests against it when driving). Again, only when accelerating in higher gears and not when up to speed.

Fast forward a few years and I had an Audi A6 2.0TDi. This was similar but far more pronounced - in fact it was horrible. It needed a new clutch & flywheel as the DMF was on it's way out. Made me wonder if that was the same issue on the old Octavia.

Hello, did you find a answer to the wobble as my vrs started the same wobble whilst on holiday in North Devon this week. I have a common rail diesel dsg vrs on a 58 plate and noticed a slow wobble not vibration or shake on accelerating. This wobble is noticeable mainly around the 35/40mph mark in 4th gear (dsg) and more pronounced uphill. This wobble is the whole car not through the stearing wheel. Any ideas would be appreciated. Chris

Funny you should ask, car going back in to dealers today as issue has become worse, front end shaking like mad on acceleration.

After my first visit and Skoda unable to find any problem i just put it down to 'pot hole' damage and maybe one of the drive sghafts being bent or out of line, but now having seen your post and another it does make me wonder....

I will keep everybody up to date and as to what they say, i'm taking the master tech out today so hopefully he will agree with me this time, first time out it was a fairly tame shake, not now though..........

CheeRs

Thanks for the replies chaps, I look forward to here what tech guy says.... keep us posted. Thanks

Hmmmmm, I do wonder if what you describe could be down to a very worn DMF

I hope not anddenton as I have heard these are rob a bank money. This wobble is like I am inputting it myself via small rapid movements of the steering wheel but when it happens there is no movement or feel in the steering wheel itself. What makes you say dmf? Has anyone else had dmf problems with the 6 speed dsg? All replies would be greatly appreciated.

Hmmmmm, I do wonder if what you describe could be down to a very worn DMF

I'm leaning towards this as all the symptoms are there, I also mentioned this to a colleague who had a Seat Alhambra a few years back and the diagnosis before he sold it was DMF failure!

I will find out later today as car went into dealers yesterday, I took the master tech out for a test drive and he confirmed to me that he felt the front end wobble also.............So that's a start at least.....

I hope not anddenton as I have heard these are rob a bank money. This wobble is like I am inputting it myself via small rapid movements of the steering wheel but when it happens there is no movement or feel in the steering wheel itself. What makes you say dmf? Has anyone else had dmf problems with the 6 speed dsg? All replies would be greatly appreciated.

I have certainly heard of DMF problems on DSG cars (I'm sure I've read of a few on here) which I guess is caused by the DSG trying to get the car in as high a gear as possible all of the time.

One of the tell tails of a worn DMF is vibration under acceleration, particularly in higher gears. I am just thinking that your vibration, due to the way/frequency it is occuring, is felt as more of a wobble.

I also refer to post 16 above where a similar thing occured and was cured by a new clutch and DMF

Thanks for the replies chaps, I look forward to here what tech guy says.... keep us posted. Thanks

Well, dealer rang me yesterday and said that they had identified the issue, they put it down to a knackered drive shaft, at first when I started getting the wobble issue I thought same but then leaned more towards DMF failure, so I was a bit dubious but let them get on with it.

New drive shaft came in this morning, stripped and fitted, they called this afternoon to say car ready so picked up, to be honest I thought I would be driving straight back after a short drive down the road.

Well I can report that this seems to have done the trick, NSF driveshaft was the culprit, I have driven the car for most of the afternoon and cannot replicate the front end wobble as before.

So there you have it chaps, all done and under warranty, very kind of them to do that, car has just under 60k and warranty runs out on Monday....

Result :thumbup:

Inner CV joint?

As I suspected then :-)

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