So I finished a 660 mile trip this weekend and there were no noises or juddering
whatsoever. The car ran brilliantly. The alignment is still going to get checked as I'm not completely happy with the stability of the car on less than billiard smooth roads. The front end seems to wash out and wander slightly if it's bumpy. I know I'd probably not be terribly impressed with it at very high speeds based upon what I experience at 80=>90.

But the noise and juddering issues are solved for me.

I ran the tires a bit higher in pressure 35F 37R and noticed no appreciable change. Mileage ended up 21.7 for the round trip. Highest ever was 22.7 and that involved a fair amount of cruise control.

 

I have Continental ContiProContact 245's up front and 285's out back, 95% tread on them and i run them at 40psi.

Car seems to grab the road quite a bit and wander side to side on bumpy or ridged roads. Also has an extremely slight higher frequency vibration on colder nights at speeds above 50mph.

I followed the TSB exactly as it called for the steering fluid additive fix, only exception i made was completely sucking the fluid out of the reservoir and adding fresh fluid along with the additive. Left it right at the max line.

Noise is completely gone within one tank of fuel but the judder/shutter when stopped is still there. Any ideas guys?

 

How long and how many miles since you did the additive?

 

Just over a week with the additive and about 300 miles maybe a little more

 

I think I mentioned this already in this thread. It took a while for it all to disappear on my car but it finally did somewhere @ about 600 miles and 6 weeks or so. Give it more time.

I have zero symptoms now other than the still slightly squirrelly tracking and some of that may just be the style of tires and or alignment. I don't remember any of this when I first picked up the car .

 

Will do! I'll post back in a few weeks and update my scenario

 

Well, any update?

 

The last few days I do notice a bit of power steering stumble in certain situations but it is still far less noticeable than it was originally. No noises any longer. In my case with the wide low profile tires that come an R type I suspect that the rack just isn't up to added load factor at times so it gets overwhelmed.

Not as bad as before but I'll keep tabs on it.

Bob S.

 

talked to amcdonal via pm's but to any of those who may be interested in my scenario ive put about a 1000 miles on since performing the additive to the TSB standards exactly and the noise is 100% gone.

i think the shudder has gone away a little bit, hard to say... but its definitley still there, very annoying,