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Front wheel vibration 200 1988

posted by  jakebelder on  Mon Oct 19 06:59 CST 2009
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Hey all, I just bought an '88 240 DL. Proud to be a Volvo owner! I have one thing I need to fix on it, however. Around 45-50mph I start to get a pretty intense vibration in the right-front wheel. Now, it does need new tires up front as well as an alignment, so I plan to get that done and am wondering if that would fix it.

But I think it might be something more, and I'm having trouble diagnosing what that might be. I had it up on jackstands the other day, and there is some play in the wheel. But I can't figure out if that means it is the ball joints, tie rod ends, or wheel bearings. As far as I can tell, it could be any of them (although, I don't have any grinding noise or anything so maybe not the bearing?).

So should I just get the tires and alignment and see what happens? I'd kind of like to figure out if it's more because if I then have to replace, say, the ball joints, I'm going to have to shell out for another alignment. Any advice?






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