My car doesn't like the rain - Terrible Vibrations.

[greg.rocco at gmail.com (Greg Pallett)]

That's really Bizzare.

This is a bit of a stretch... But how's the alignment?  I had a horribly out
of alignment car that drove fine on dry roads, but in the wet it was quite a
handfl - it became much more darty and felt unstable around the turns.

I'm having a hard time trying to formulate my theory, but maybe.... on a wet
road the disagreement in which way the front wheels want to go is causing
some sympathetic vibration, since they are slipping more readily on the wet
road than they would in the dry.....?

If you think I should get most creative answer award, or if you'd like to
call and laugh hysterically at my half-assed theory, by all means!
It's just the wet/dry difference that I'm thinking of..

Cheers!

GP


On 7/20/06, Don Walter <dswalterwi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Something very strange starts to happens when I am driving on roads that
> have a good amount of water on them.  The engine and exhaust system starts
> to vibrate horribly.  I can feel the exhaust system banging against the
> tunnel.  I don't know if this is the result of something else happening.
> All the motor mounts were replaced last year when I rebuilt the motor.  I
> have just recently put the stiffest rubber rear motor mount TT sells so I
> don't think it is due to bad motor mounts.  I have a Poly front motor
> mount
> also. I can't believe it is because the motor is flexing.  You can hardly
> move it by hand.  Since the last rain I got under the car and loosened the
> rear and used a pry bar to move it forward as far as I could as it was all
> the way toward the rear.  This only happens when there is a good amount of
> water on the roads.  On dry roads it is perfect.  I have never experienced
> this in my other Sciroccos.
>
> --
> Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
> 1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
> 1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
> 1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
> http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
> 1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
> 1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
> 1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
> 1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
> 1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
> 1969 Beetle (sold)
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