My new Beast

Post by **chrisn** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:22 pm

Hi everyone,
Just got myself one of these beasts. She is on a 2000 plate with 45K miles. Picked her up for £32000. Reg X464 GEP. Does anyone know her ?? Does anyone have any tips / advice on steering vibrations. I get a slight vibration through the steering and seat when approaching 70mph and it dissappears at approx 105mph. Had the wheels balanced and alligned - Tyres are fairly new too . ??????

Cheers Chris

Post by **PhilT** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:41 am

Can't say I know that car. Did you have the wheels checked to see if they were round?

Post by **simple1** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:11 am

Phil said it..... sounds like you have square wheels. Worth checking that the wheels are the newer harder compound rim as the earlier ones will keep bending, I know, I think there was only one other person who had more wheels than me!

Post by **PhilT** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:34 am

Personally I have stuck to the soft 'safety' wheels. There were reports of the harder ones bending too. Not sure how many wheels I've had, but probably around the 20 mark.

Post by **viffer** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:09 am

Personally I have stuck to the soft 'safety' wheels

Me too. I quite like the fact that Audi give me a new set of wheels every so often. And so far they've not quibbled about a couple of minor wheel scuffs (I know, shame on me).

I've also heard of the harder wheels bending. Also lots of people with TTs have had their version of the 18" 9-spoke wheel bend.

Cheers, Richard.

Post by **Steve_Mc** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:51 pm

Me too. I quite like the fact that Audi give me a new set of wheels every so often. And so far they've not quibbled about a couple of minor wheel scuffs (I know, shame on me).

Funny you should say that Richard, I've scuffed a couple of mine. Rather than shell out for a refurb I've been thinking the best plan is to intentionally drive into a couple of potholes. So far, they've stayed obstinately round

Post by **viffer** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:53 pm

Hi Steve, nice to hear from you. Hope the beast is still doing good service.

Steve_Mc wrote:So far, they've stayed obstinately round

only a matter of time...

Cheers, Richard.

Post by **zorroRs4** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:34 am

am sure i have square wheels,

i want to ask that life warnty thing is just for UK?
will the dealer here(Saudi Arabia) replace it for me as the RS4 was not released here and i got it from United Arab Emarites?
any info would b great guys.
thanks.

Post by **PhilT** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:52 am

As far as I know the wheel "Goodwill Warranty" was pretty much limited to the UK.

Post by BW » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:22 pm

Possible as well Hong Kong too, Bem has told me this if I remembered. Phil.

Post by **zorroRs4** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:26 am

thats not good news,

any RS4 oweners here outside UK have any info?
cheers guys.

Post by **chrisn** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:49 am

We spent about 5 hours and every tyre / method of balancing / tracking possible. So Audi have agreed to look at it in more depth. !! Going in on Wed so will see about a set of new Round wheels !!! Cheers Guys

Post by **TarmacTerrorist** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:19 am

chrisn wrote:We spent about 5 hours and every tyre / method of balancing / tracking possible.

Have you tried a different company for balancing?

Reason I say this is because true balancing is not acheived by continually adding more weight to the side that the machine say's it needs to go on. A GOOD balancer will shift part of the weights from the initial reading around the rim to acheive balance wih minimal weight attachment.

Try to find a garage who are Pirelli approved as one of their staff will have been on the pirelli wheel balancing course

Post by **chrisn** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:51 am

Had a go with 3 different companies !! The last one I tried was recommended by a mate with an Aston DB7 Vantage. He took his car there and said it was the dogs danglies !!! The did a wicked job to mine - They didnt have the RS4 tracking setting so they used the S4 setting insted ... Seems to have improved loads ... Still going to take car to Audi's to see about these new hard wheels

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