NSF Wheel scraping wishbone - I'm worried !
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This might sound daft but I've only just noticed that the NSF wheel (not the tyre) touches the lower wishbone when I am on full lock (scraping noise). As I usually just take the car out of the garage and go for a blast, I've not had to use full lock before as I never park it up anywhere, other than drive it straight back into my garage.
Anyway, is this an indicator that my car has been stuffed before, or is there a more innocent reason for this to happen?
Anyway, is this an indicator that my car has been stuffed before, or is there a more innocent reason for this to happen?
Yes, original wheels and 205 tyres on front.
I've booked it in to David Geralds for a service and new bushes and they will have a look at the steering, but I was wondering if there is a "stop" which prevents excessive steering lock, which might be missing?
I'm surprised that I have this problem, as I had the car inspected before I bought it. And no, I haven't had a prang!
I've booked it in to David Geralds for a service and new bushes and they will have a look at the steering, but I was wondering if there is a "stop" which prevents excessive steering lock, which might be missing?
I'm surprised that I have this problem, as I had the car inspected before I bought it. And no, I haven't had a prang!
HHmmm…. I had a sort of similar problem (or so I was told, because I hadn't noticed it). I have a 4l Chimaera, which I've owned for the past 3 ½ years. I have no reason to believe it has had any accident damage at all, and has never been off road under my ownership (off at the old hairpin at Donnington into the gravel, but never off road 
).
I put the car into my preferred main TVR dealer to have a strange noise from the front suspension investigated. Turned out that the one of the front wish bones had come slightly loose, and was moving. Which I believe to be correct as the car had started to wander under heavy braking, therefore this would make sense. Anyway car came back, the noise was gone and braking much better - so I'm a happy chappie.
This is the unusual bit. The car was brought from this garage, and serviced by them for the past 5 years. Yet when they completed the work on the wish bone, they noticed that one of the front wheels was fouling the wish bone on full lock. In almost 3 years of ownership and approx 15k miles, I had never noticed it. Nor was this picked up on a PDI when I brought it, or the 3 services completed by them over the past 3 years. They asked if I had put different wheels or tyres on it. Nope just standard 205 width SO2s, the same as originally supplied with the car, when I brought it from them.
Anyway, they didn't seem to see it as a problem as they 'spaced the rack' - in their words (I assume they mean the steering rack) for me, with a couple of 3mm washers, and charged me about £80 for the privilege.
I'm none the wiser, as it seems to have made no difference to the way the car drives, steers, etc…..
Maybe they could do the same on yours. Or was I just 'tucked up, like a kipper…?'
jj
>> Edited by jj_work on Wednesday 12th February 17:34
). I put the car into my preferred main TVR dealer to have a strange noise from the front suspension investigated. Turned out that the one of the front wish bones had come slightly loose, and was moving. Which I believe to be correct as the car had started to wander under heavy braking, therefore this would make sense. Anyway car came back, the noise was gone and braking much better - so I'm a happy chappie.
This is the unusual bit. The car was brought from this garage, and serviced by them for the past 5 years. Yet when they completed the work on the wish bone, they noticed that one of the front wheels was fouling the wish bone on full lock. In almost 3 years of ownership and approx 15k miles, I had never noticed it. Nor was this picked up on a PDI when I brought it, or the 3 services completed by them over the past 3 years. They asked if I had put different wheels or tyres on it. Nope just standard 205 width SO2s, the same as originally supplied with the car, when I brought it from them.
Anyway, they didn't seem to see it as a problem as they 'spaced the rack' - in their words (I assume they mean the steering rack) for me, with a couple of 3mm washers, and charged me about £80 for the privilege.
I'm none the wiser, as it seems to have made no difference to the way the car drives, steers, etc…..
Maybe they could do the same on yours. Or was I just 'tucked up, like a kipper…?'
jj
>> Edited by jj_work on Wednesday 12th February 17:34
Thanks for that, perhaps I have a similar fault? No doubt I will find out when the car goes in to DGs on Saturday, but my first thought was that the car had been stuffed and I'd bought a 'wrong un', only noticing this fault months after I bought the car!
I'm not experiencing wandering under braking, nor do I think that my car has had a frontal, after a quick chat with the guy who inspected the car I am sure that the car is straight and genuine. Maybe someone has had a minor incident and bent the left lower wishbone somehow? Anyway, fingers crossed and we will see in a few days time.
I'm not experiencing wandering under braking, nor do I think that my car has had a frontal, after a quick chat with the guy who inspected the car I am sure that the car is straight and genuine. Maybe someone has had a minor incident and bent the left lower wishbone somehow? Anyway, fingers crossed and we will see in a few days time.
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