It is not my imagination - joined the motorway (M6 Sandbach) and it felt like a huge gust of wind was moving the car - there was no wind. I crawled behind a truck at 40, stopped, re-started and was okay around 60, but scary once back at 70.
Dropped the car off at the garage, so will see what he says next week.
Alfashop in Norwich advise unlikely to be the shocks, but, given 4 new bones at front, new rear transverse arms and axle bushes, and 2 garages advising no play anywhere, I can only think it has to be the shocks.
2001 car on 72K's.
Anyone care to speculate anything else to eliminate before I get new shocks? They seem okay, drives fine on normal roads, but on a straight road where I turn a little (like a motorway slip road) it is a little hairy to say the least........
Yes, full 4-wheel alignment - no change needed, it is perfect.
Good news in a way as this means all moveable parts are all okay, hence cannot be any play anywhere.
It surely must be the shocks - however, my parts supplier assured me shocks are probably okay as they hardly sell any!
Okay turning left and right, but gets a little floaty on the motorway, and on joining I felt like the wind was blwing the car where it was not, hence I am guessing knackered shocks would do this.
It is 6 years old with 72K's on, and my sister who had the car has a lead foot and lives around speed bumps, so hoping I am not wasting my money on new shocks - fingers crossed!
Giving my colleagues a laugh, but I am losing my usually good humour now....
How new are your tyres? All I can think of is that they may have worn unevenly with your previous problems and now that your geometry is correct, maybe the tyres aren't sitting evenly on the ground?
If your parts supplier sells only OEM shocks then I am not surprised that he doesn't sell any as they are crap!!! I hate to rain on your parade but 72K miles (?) with a low starting point (i.e. original quality shocks) I would be surpised if you didn't see a marked improvement. I changed mine at <60K kms due to one of the fronts failing and it improved the ride/handling enormously.
I said in a previous thread that the shocks could be duff.
The "bounce test" doesn't really tell you anything. Alfas (at least the newer ones) don't seem to bounce anyway even with gubbed shocks.
My 1st 155 Silverstone had really gubbed shocks when I bought it, the rears had no pressure and one of the fronts had very low pressure. The car still "passed" the bounce test.
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