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at very low speed (under 5 mph usually) if i turn the wheel more than probably 1 turn on my 1995 960, it sometimes shudders a lot. it isn't like the shudder from the brakes at high speed, but rather a loud shudder that makes noise rather than shakes the whole car. It sounds as if a piece of plastic or thin metal is shaking a LOT. The sound only lasts as i crank the wheel, it happens probably 10% of the time that i do it. It starts, then stops after 1.5 to 2 seconds, regardless of whether i am still turning the wheel just as hard.
it's hard to describe. I was wondering if it was related to a pretty bad alignment problem.
when i first got the car about 10 months ago, it was poorly aligned. my dad took it to a shop to have it aligned and they said it (the adjustments for camber and all those other values) was cranked as far as it would go. The weird part is, the alignment problem goes away and comes back depending on bumps and that sort of thing on the roads. if it pulls to the right (always pulls in this direction) really hard, i can take it down a steep driveway or speed bump, and if i hit it at even a less than NORMAL speed, the alignment problem will often go away. same goes for if the alignment is pretty straight one day and i hit a bump, it will often start pulling pretty damn bad. (if i let go of the wheel while going in a straight line for more than 1/2 second i would be on the sidewalk)
can some kind of control for the alignment be loose so that it changes when i hit bumps and so forth???? and could this be related to the power steering noise at low speed?
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