Car Bits Part II - Attack of the Wobbles
By Rob On 14th June 2008
I drove the R4 down to Portchester on the South Coast to let my uncle have a play. He knows his cars. He had a look under the bonnet, a fiddle here and there, and a kick of the wheels. I also brought down some rear shock absorbers we picked up cheaply off eBay at his request. The read end of the car was a little...under dampened, shall we say. In testing this, uncle Si found a bit of play in the rear right wheel. In testing this further, he decided we were lucky to be alive having driven all that way on a wheel with about 2 degrees of vertical play! Off came the wheel, and it turned out a nut hadn't been properly tightened after a recent change of the rear brakes and bearings. Phew. We managed to replace one of the rear shocks as well, and the difference was very pronounced