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My car doesn't like the rain - Terrible Vibrations.
On 11:22 am 07/20/06 "Greg Pallett" <greg.rocco@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
I had more problems in the wet than dry when my tie rod ends were crap too,
not a vibration, just more wandery, so you may be on to something with that
suggestion, who knows?
cathy
>
>
> 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.
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> > 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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