More acceleration; more vibration

[AyeAhKen]

Hi all,

The other day I changed both my wishbones with new rubber bushes all round and new ball joints too and it knocked the wheel alignment out by a mile, so I changed the track rod ends after cutting the old ones off and adjusted the tracking so the car was driveable and I've just had the alignment done

BUT

Now the car is vibrating like mad, the faster I go the more it vibrates and when I dip the clutch it almost completely disappears. Obviously im thinking drivetrain rather than suspension problems.

• I recently changed the cambelt so today I double checked the engine mount incase I hadn't tightened it up enough but it's fine.
• I haven't had the hubs apart.
• It's pulling well but when I get up to about 60mph it doesn't feel like it wants to keep accelerating like it used to.
• Clutch feels ok.
• Steering feels great and doesn't pull to the side.

Thanks in advance

Ben

P.s. It's a 5speed 2001 GTi

[Defcon5]

Unfortunately I'd say you are going to have to double check everything you have done! Did you use genuine parts?

Does it vibrate it you rev it at a standstill in neutral?

[AyeAhKen]

I got the wishbones on eBay and compared them to the old ones and they were perfect.

It doesn't vibrate when I just rev it.

[Defcon5]

Where were the ball joints from, if they weren't from VW it is highly likely they are wrong

[AyeAhKen]

They came as part of the wishbone set.

Is it a common problem?

[GeoffD]

I warn you now! I had to do several bottom arms again after fitting (at customer's request) cheap bottom arms. these came from eur*****arts (no law suits here thank you) they turned out to be rebranded Chinese shite. please save yourself grief etc, save up and buy the good bottom arms for your car. I always thought that gti ones were model specific too but I haven't got one so don't quote me there, I think it's got something to do with the orientation of the track rod ends geoff

[Defcon5]

The actual wishbones are the same, but the ball joint is a GTI specific, the arms on it are longer

[AyeAhKen]

Anyone know off the top of their head how much they are from vw?

[lupogtiboy]

You will need

N/S - 6E0 407 366 £30.04 inc vat from VW

O/S - 6E0 407 365 £30.04 inc vat from VW

I'd also recommend all the bolts:

N101 277 07 - x6 (3 per side) - £1.06 each inc vat

And the plates they bolt into:

6N0 407 175 A - x2 - £6.78 each inc vat

And the Lock nuts onto the hub carrier:

N 104 220 01 - x2 - £1.37 each inc vat

So on this picture, they are parts 3, 9, 2, & 10

[AyeAhKen]

Nice one. Cheers mate!

[AyeAhKen]

I changed the ball joints and it got rid of the vibrating but it knocked the tracking out a bit.

Thanks for all the help.