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Old 01-24-2002, 05:50 PM
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Default "fluttered vibration" when i crank the wheel or accelerate on sharp turns...

When I turn the wheel very sharp, not all the way, say for a u-turn, the car sort of flutters with a slight vebration. Kind of hard to describe. This also happens when I accelerate in to a very sharp turn. I am curious as to why this happens. Is it normal? I first noticed this at an auto-x in Marina a few months ago. Not sure I am explaining this but maybe this is normal, is it?
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wheel bearing?
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what causes that to go bad? and are bad bearings noticable under normal driving?
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Driving your car over time. And eventually...yes
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sounds like you aren;t used to the crabbing of a 4wd vehicle. It happens, and it's normal.
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Default If you drive your car over time, does it kill time?

And if you kill time, does it damage eternity?

*Grrrrrrrrroan*

Sorry :-D

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Default I felt mine go at 5k miles. Dealer couldn't hear or feel it until 9k.

I felt it in the gas pedal at first. Just an ever so slight vibration. They can go bad from a number of things, in my case it was probably a manufacturing defect.
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You'll hear a whirring noise from that corner. Try coasting to a stop slowly from about 30 mph.
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Agreed - it's the AWD system. Diffs have limits :-P
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Okay, I'm looking at your sig...I see snow, I see ice, do I see snow tires?


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