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Recently I noticed, that when driving around 140 km/h (starting somewhere around 130 km/h and ending around 150 km/h), you can feel slight vibrations on the steering wheel. Moreover, the vibrations are sensable also on the whole car. To explain myself better, these are the same kind of vibrations that many older cars tend to have at a certain speed, due to resonance I think. However, the problem is not very big, you can still drive the car normally and it behaves and responds as it should, I am only concerned about the fact, that this problem might grow in time and become annoying. Is this a problem anyway or is it a common thing in every car? before I drove a opel Vectra and it also had the same problem, but only after 80.000 km, not from the first day.
Did anyone of you folks experienced anything like that yet?
P.S. My ceed is almost new, bougt it a couple of months ago and made 4.500 km till now.
Yes, I also thought about that. So, as I understand, you haven´t noticed anything like that. When driving on motorway, your cars are completely stil with no viobrations even at higher speeds?
I have not noticed it on my Ceed, at any speed. I have had it on other cars. My Nissan had vibrations at around 60 mph just after I had a new set of tyres fitted. I went to a different tyre fitter and they checked the tracking and wheel balancing. Both were out and had to be reset. Once they were done properly, no more vibrations at any speed. I was told that if you feel the vibration just through the steering wheel, the front wheel balancing is out, and if you feel it in the body, it's the back wheels and also might be the front as well. Balancing problems show up at certain speeds, go slower or faster and they usually disappear.
new set of alloys and tires should be balanced after a couple of weeks after first fitting. tires settle in and disrupt the balance (sounds like star wars)
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