Hi Everyone I am hoping to get some clarity on an issue I just came across and was wondering if anyone has had the same issue.
I have a 2014 ST3 with about 44K miles on it. Within the last couple of days I've noticed a substantial vibration coming from my car when I hit 35+ MPH. I feel it from the floor to even the pedals from what feels like the passenger side and it's driving me nuts as to what it could be. Not sure if this lead to the vibration or not but last weekend, I was just starting to drive out of my neighborhood very slowly, stopped at a stop sign and all the sudden when I went to pull onto a main road with out any pop or bang or anything I heard a very loud horrible metal on metal scrapping sound! I pulled over to see if anything was dragging or just didn't look right to the eye but it looked fine so I continued on with the noise still going. I went another 200 yards or so pulled over again into the neighborhood and the noise completely stopped! The car felt fine so I continued on and hasn't made that noise since....fast forward a couple days to the vibration I am getting. I am not sure if they might be related but I assume there is a very good chance. I also did my front and back brakes and rotors maybe a month ago but I know they were done properly and I did a proper break in procedure. The breaks felt fine after driving with them awhile and the vibration does not happen upon stopping so I think it's a separate issue and nothing to do with that break job.
I did just put my summer wheels/tires back on so my first thought was check to make sure they are balanced correctly. I took them to a local shop and 3 of 4 were off, so we zeroed them out and my hope was that did it. I took it for a test drive and now with the wheels properly balanced the vibration was even more noticeable!
A little background: I did lower the car on Eibach Pro-kit lowering springs about 20K miles ago and I know lowering cars can put added stress on the suspension components in some cases. But this was a modest lowering kit at .7 up front and 1 inch in back plus new dampeners. And honestly the car feels so much better on these springs overal and I know the tension was the same as OEM.
Please if has any thoughts as to what this might be I am all ears! I don't feel comfortable driving my car now so regardless I will probably take it to the dealer to try and be diagnosed this week...:sad:
Thanks!
I have a 2014 ST3 with about 44K miles on it. Within the last couple of days I've noticed a substantial vibration coming from my car when I hit 35+ MPH. I feel it from the floor to even the pedals from what feels like the passenger side and it's driving me nuts as to what it could be. Not sure if this lead to the vibration or not but last weekend, I was just starting to drive out of my neighborhood very slowly, stopped at a stop sign and all the sudden when I went to pull onto a main road with out any pop or bang or anything I heard a very loud horrible metal on metal scrapping sound! I pulled over to see if anything was dragging or just didn't look right to the eye but it looked fine so I continued on with the noise still going. I went another 200 yards or so pulled over again into the neighborhood and the noise completely stopped! The car felt fine so I continued on and hasn't made that noise since....fast forward a couple days to the vibration I am getting. I am not sure if they might be related but I assume there is a very good chance. I also did my front and back brakes and rotors maybe a month ago but I know they were done properly and I did a proper break in procedure. The breaks felt fine after driving with them awhile and the vibration does not happen upon stopping so I think it's a separate issue and nothing to do with that break job.
I did just put my summer wheels/tires back on so my first thought was check to make sure they are balanced correctly. I took them to a local shop and 3 of 4 were off, so we zeroed them out and my hope was that did it. I took it for a test drive and now with the wheels properly balanced the vibration was even more noticeable!
A little background: I did lower the car on Eibach Pro-kit lowering springs about 20K miles ago and I know lowering cars can put added stress on the suspension components in some cases. But this was a modest lowering kit at .7 up front and 1 inch in back plus new dampeners. And honestly the car feels so much better on these springs overal and I know the tension was the same as OEM.
Please if has any thoughts as to what this might be I am all ears! I don't feel comfortable driving my car now so regardless I will probably take it to the dealer to try and be diagnosed this week...:sad:
Thanks!