One thing you could check. Since our vehicles have reached their teenage years, often times the suspension bushings are in need of repair. If the A-Arm bushings are worn, then you will get unwanted play in the front suspension. This will become evident during acceleration. Another component that may come into play here is the strut bearings. My experience is the worn bearings make lots of noise during changes in speed. Especially when braking over bumpy road surfaces.
Just a guess -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Andrew White Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 6:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [a2-16v-list] Motor mount questions Seeing the list running again inspired me to ask (another..) question. I had all of the motor mounts replaced on my 92 GLI last August by a competent garage (German Motors in Providence, RI). After replacement, the rear motor mount was found to be defective (how can a motor mount be defective?)- the car had a lot of vibration on acceleration, and felt like a tank. They replaced the bad mount for free, and the car was a whole lot better. Fast forward to two weeks ago- I had new tires mounted at the local Midas by my house (Goodyear GT-HRs). All of a sudden, the car feels like it has a bad mount.. but not all of the time! Sometimes it feels great, and then sometimes when accelerating it feels like a mount is totally dead (everything rattles, etc). Looked under the car, don't see any broken exhaust hangers, and no rubbing. Took the car into German Motors, they said the motor mounts looked fine. Anyone have any ideas? I would think that if a mount was bad, it would feel bad all of the time- it only feels bad about half of the time. I'm still not convinced that the exhaust is rubbing a little bit and I'm just not seeing it (it's freezing up here- being outside under the car is something I can only really take for a few minutes..). It's pretty annoying though, especially since I spent a lot of cash on the new mounts. Thanks! Andrew ........................................................................ PGP public key available from: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x82D3E4A0 26 + 6 = 1 _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
