Wish Me Luck For Friday

[Cabcurtains]

Hi All,

The old girl has a wheel wobble at about 70, which is annoying, now the question is will it be fixed by a new set of (winter) tyres (on Friday) or is it a wheel bearing?

The tyres are stepped and are out of shape and all are so old they don't show a Week/Year marking, the tracking was off the scale when it was corrected. The wheels were not balanced at the time as the tyres are shot. The tread is ok, but they are cracked and more square then round.

So it has a hum from the tyres and a bit of a wobble.

Which will it be, bearing or rubber, or could it be something else, please be the rubber!

Are wheel bearing failures common on this car? Ours is a 54' and has done 77k.

[Bluesman]

Good luck. We always think the worse but you never know could be a good outcome. Mike.

[ChrisKaye]

109k on original wheel bearings for me and still going strong!

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[TigerFish]

I wouldn't expect a wheel bearing to produce wobble unless it is literally disintegrating. It would rumble, but not wobble. More likely to be tyres or sticky calipers/slidepins on the brakes.

[Cabcurtains]

I am of course a little bias/hopeful.....but the brakes are all new, and the MOT is fresh, so i'm hoping for tyres B)

I don't drive this car very often (its the wife's, i use my Mini), but when i do i love it, so comfy and relaxed, just not when the wheel wobbles.

[PCM]

Good luck!

[jonthebarber]

Hi

I had a wheel wobble in my old rx300 , which turned out to be a egg/bulge in the tyre .

Jon

[PCM]

How did you get on on Friday ?

:hohoho:

[Cabcurtains]

It appears to be all sorted, having had the car up to a reasonable speed there isn't any wobble

I think i'm going to get rid of these, the tread is ok but they are a bit tired.

[TigerFish]

Result

[PCM]

So basically new tyres fixed it.

Great.

(When I got my car, new tyres fixed a number of niggles - made me feel safer too ! )