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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: 17gti on 18 April 2005, 21:39

Title: steering wheel shakes and i feel every bump in the road help plz
Post by: 17gti on 18 April 2005, 21:39

hi ive got a mk2 golf gti 1.8 and ive got spax coilovers all the way round the front lowed to 80mm and the back is 100 i was wondering if that wouled make me feel every bump on the road and make long drives hell as felling evry bump is not wat i want to feel and i was wondering my steering wheel shakes asweel just wondering if any one couled give me some advise on the steering and the coilovers and what does coilovers mean thanks this is my first golf ive had  thanks

Title: Re: steering wheel shakes and the fell every bump
Post by: ...joe on 18 April 2005, 21:42

slamming your car will make it quite uncomfy to drive...mine is pretty harsh on sh!tty roads, shaking steering wheel...does this happen at certain speeds or all the time? probably worth getting your tracking looked at and getting your wheels checked for balancing to start off with.

coilovers is a bit of a misleading term. but basiclly on standard suspension you have a fixed platform for the spring to sit on, with coilovers this platform is adjustable so you can set the ride height however you want. thats pretty much the main difference between the two.

Title: Re: steering wheel shakes and the fell every bump
Post by: ...joe on 18 April 2005, 21:45

look at this link:

http://www.koni.com/_cars/frame.html

coilovers are the bottom set, normal ones are the top set, you can see the difference.......

Title: Re: steering wheel shakes and i feel every bump in the road help plz
Post by: Mr Blue on 19 April 2005, 10:12

get your tracking and tyres ballanced again.

Mine was out bigtime

and as your front is lower than the back you might find that the rear jumps/slides at roundabouts where there is a pot hole :evil:
well mine f**kin does :grin:

Title: Re: steering wheel shakes and i feel every bump in the road help plz
Post by: 17gti on 19 April 2005, 14:19

na my back is lowerd 100mm and the front is 80mm im gone to raise it bye 10mm all the way round then go from there as i want a nice drive not so i know that ive been driving for hours when on long drives

Title: Re: steering wheel shakes and i feel every bump in the road help plz
Post by: diagnosis-dub on 20 April 2005, 00:56

As said above in the posts the steering wheel shaking and feeling every bump in the road is down to the fact that you've dropped your car so much.

Because you've lowered your car so much your suspension is picking up every little bump and transfering this to you via your track rods as steering wheel movement. A normal height car has a certain amount of play or compliancy that your lowered car no longer has.

Coilovers are designed so that you still get a decent amount of suspension travel even when lowered dramatically that a normal macpherson strut couldn't give you, if you droped it 100mm on stiffer springs it would be operating against its limits and would have limited travel even on a shorter shock absorber.