On 02/08/2023 at 23:18, Ricad58 said:

Hi, @Skodaman17 the rear lower control arm bushings were shot on mine, I have just replaced them (in the arms) and will be putting them back in the car this week. I have also replaed the struts as they were well passed their used by date. I'll update the thread when the car is back on the road and had a wheel aligment. Hope this fixes the problem as I have run out of things to change! There are pad wear sensors for the brakes so perhaps that is damaged? 

 

I would have thought the MOT would have noticed if the bushes are worn out? 

What was the outcome please?

Hi, Car is not back together yet. 

On 19/08/2023 at 23:57, Ricad58 said:

Hi, Car is not back together yet. 

Hi, facing similar issue with wheel wobble at 70 mph after having new wheel bearings, discs, pads, wheel balancing and tracking, there's still occasional wheel wobble. Was is those suspensions parts that caused the issues?

Hi, well as embarrassing as this is the car is not back on the road due to some damage from a kangaroo and long wait times to get parts. The Skoda is not my only vehicle so this has minimal impact on me. If you get under the car had have a look at the condition of the rubber in the bushings on the lower control arm you should be able to see if they have failed. It is a common problem on all the VW based front ends. I changed the bushes but you can just source the complete non OEM arm and new bushing for almost the same price. Good luck! 

Hi just wanted to provide an update on my superbs issue with steering vibration. I have discovered it to be a few things, first I have a bent wheel which balancing couldn't fix so need to get that repaired. I swapped that wheel to the rear. The main thing however was the driveshaft. I have had to replace the whole thing which has not been cheap even with aftermarket parts but now at 70 -75 mph all I can feel now is just the surface of the road and it's vastly improved!

@LukeG99 It's good to hear that you have nailed the problem. I'd be interested to know how you diagnosed the drive shaft problem. Further to my issues I put the car back on the road a few months ago and had a wheel alignment and balance carried out. The vehicle still vibrates and just gets worse as the speed increases it is quite noticeable at 100 + KPH. I took the car to a friend's place that has a hoist and found that all 4 wheels were out round and some also out of vertical alignment. Using a dial indicator measuring deflection on the inside of each rim (at an angle so it saw deflection in both planes) we rotated the wheels and found all 4 rims to be faulty. These are all after-market mag wheels that replaced the original wheels a few years back but haven't driven a lot of kilometres. So now the battle will be the retailer and then the importer of the wheels. I have attached a video as a demonstration of the measurements.

12 hours ago, LukeG99 said:

Hi just wanted to provide an update on my superbs issue with steering vibration. I have discovered it to be a few things, first I have a bent wheel which balancing couldn't fix so need to get that repaired. I swapped that wheel to the rear. The main thing however was the driveshaft. I have had to replace the whole thing which has not been cheap even with aftermarket parts but now at 70 -75 mph all I can feel now is just the surface of the road and it's vastly improved!

Nice, it's not easy to find these things

I know this was a while back but did you get anywhere in the end? I have the same issue, i have new brakes, new hubs, wheels balanced.

Thank you

My problem, other than having to replace the lower control arm bushes (common issue with VW-based mechanics), was that all the rims (Mag wheels) are faulty. So I have to replace all of the wheels.

Make sure someone checks the bushes on the lower control arm.

Hope you track down the issue.

Thank you, forgot to say i have also replaced the rear most alloy housed suspension bushes and have the Skoda 17 inch wheels still. Mine is a 2009 twin door manual with 130k miles. Has anyone ever tried suspension top mounts?

I needed a new driveshaft in the end, £700 or so later and the vibration was gone but then a droning noise from the transmission area developed and either a gearbox rebuild or new flywheel might be the solution but I have taken it as far as budget allows.

Thanks Luke, sorry to hear you have developed a new fault 🥴 how did you determine which side driveshaft it was?