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Eek Skywalker

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Eek Skywalker

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Hello all,

I have done a search on this problem i have on the forums and have got a bit of information, some of which seems to contradict the other. So just wondering if anyone has experienced this/knows a fix for it. Here goes:

I took the car for a wheel alignment and balance cause i had bad vibration over 120km/hr. Guess what? It's still there. It's violent between 120-130km/h. I've noticed that at 120km/h it vibrates through the steering wheel. 130km/h, the vibration in the steering wheel is less, but the console (where the radio a/c is) shakes like hell. At 140km/h, the vibration moves to the drive shaft/rear i think. Any ideas on what this could be or how i could fix it?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Eek

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sounds like ur wheels aren't balanced, try someone else to balance it... also test the pressure of the tyres, try not to use the ones u find at the petrol stations cause they aren't very good, i find that my tyres don't seem to hold pressure very well so i have to keep pumping air in every now and them ... but yeah ... most of threads like this i've seen were fixed with proper balancing... are the tyres new??

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i think its an unbalanced tail shaft, on my vl (yeah its not a skyline) i had a 2 peice tailshaft, wheels were ballanced and alligned propley, coudlnt work it out, but it would be find till i did 160 and it would vibrate like hell. i replaced the center berring thinking that was ruined, didnt do anything.

my car was so bad once backing off at 240, u would think it was going to drop the box and send the engine outa its mounts.

i then got the tailshaft ballanced and everything was fine.

have you hit anything under the car? the slightest knock on a tailshaft can put it outa ballance.

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