The Boxster. 6 months since I got it. 7 wheel balances (of all 4 wheels). 4 new tyres. 1 "repaired" alloy [1]. And I still get vibration through the steering. [1] The repaired alloy - drivers side rear, when they had it on the machine I could see the surface of the tyre had a low spot. Their repair consists of taking tyre/valve off, putting in an oven, and then hitting dent with an 'ammer. URKM mechanics would have been proud, but it seems not to have worked. It is *better*. Its between approx 70 and 90 (kph, honest). Coming through the wheel and also very slightly through the body. Doesn't get notably worse under braking, virtually isn't there under hard acceleration. Doesn't appear again no matter how fast the traffic lets me go. My local Porsche garage doesn't even have its own tyre fitting or balancing equipment, they call in a local mobile bloke, and the garages attitude seems to be "throw almost random bits at the problem, charging the customer for every one, until the problem or customer goes away". Of course all the (independant) garages call the others clueless cunts that don't know how to balance anything, and (un)balance all 4 wheels every time. Assuming it *is* one or more of the wheels bent, is there anywhere that will *properly* fix them? Or will that just be a waste of money and buying new alloys is the only way forward? If they can be repaired, anyone know of somewhere proper that will find which ones are fecked and repair them? OTOH if its not the wheels, what else could it be? Driveshafts bent? Brake discs? Wheel bearings? One garage bloke said it might be the suspension bushes. I resisted asking him to explain exactly how worn suspension bushes could cause cyclic imbalance. <sigh> Honestly, half of me wishes I'd bought a new 159 or Focus ST.
