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front end knock ***PLEASE HELP*** 850 1996

the last week my '96 t5 95k has developed a vibration mostly felt through the steering wheel begining at 65mph upto 100mph it dies down at around 110mph, the tires have just been balanced TWICE so i'm sure is not them.

i have had the car on a joist with the front wheels off the ground and i have noticed a loud knocking/clunking noise coming from the left hand driveshaft area (passenger side UK spec) going forwards, backwards, left or right.

this noise begins from 20mph onward and is worse at around 40mph, this occurs with the tyre off or on and even with the hub assembly removed completely with only the inner and outer cv's and driveshaft spinning!!! but the noise does not happen with the car on the ground.

the outer cv has been replaced on the side the noise is coming from so i don't think it's that but could it be the inner cv??? it sounds like one of the three ball bearings in the inner joint tripod has broke and is rattling around.

apart from the steering wheel vibration at speed i have had no other problems i.e brake shudder, vibration when accelerating/decelerating or knocking when taking slow full lock turns.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

thanks








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    Noise only with wheel off the ground? 850 1996

    Are you saying that you don't hear this noise normally, like driving the car? Many cars make unusual drivetrain noises running (freewheeling) on a hoist with the wheels off the ground (no drivetrain, rolling resistance). You should hear all the strange sounds ALL AWD Volvos (or other AWD vehicles) make running them on a hoist, sound like everything's bad.
    If you're not hearing anything normally, then you have nothing to worry about.
    Un un-torqued hub (?) or axle spinning as you've mentioned will make noise, no doubt.

    As for the vibration, despite what you say about balance, a high speed vibration is most likely due to improper wheel balance although I wouldn't rule out a bad tire (out of round which should be visable as you're watching it spin on a hoist) or slighly bent wheel (also obvious spinning off the ground).
    Have you tryed rotating wheels front to back?








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    front end knock ***PLEASE HELP*** 850 1996

    What tire rating do you have? T? H? Z?

    I had the same kind of problem( Yokohama Avid T4). Tire shop was balancing, balancing, balancing....and always had the same answer that maybe I was crazy and that their balancing machine was perfect.... They gave me 2 new tires, no fix. They looked at the car and said that it would be fix by changing the left driveshaft because they could see a little move(up and down) on it.

    Finally went to an indy volvo guy who as soon as he drove the car said that I din't had the right tire rating for this car. He explained me that the machine they use for balancing cant see that kind of problem because the rotating speed is too low to make that kind of "deformation".

    The tire shop sold me T rated tire and nothing less than H should be installed on this car if you drive over 70 mph. It seems that those tires(T rated) were too soft so they were "deforming" at high speed.

    Changed for H rated(Potenza RE 950)and now the car is going great.







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