Re: turning rotors...

[David Kim <glxvr6@ibm.net>]

Joel,

check to see that your wheels/tires are properly balanced.  I have the
same symptoms on my Jetta GLX, I took a look at the front right rim and
noticed that a couple of the wheel weights had disappeared.  I'm running
17" rims/tires and the weights they had to use were the stick on kind
and that's how I realized what was causing the shimmy.  The stick on
weights left the sticky backing on the rim when they disappeared.

Hope this helps,

David Kim
1997 Vento GLX




> I had my car inspected today and everything checked out...but I get this
> slight shimmy in the steering wheel when I brake (mostly lightly braking at
> highway speed)...the guy said my pads and rotors are fine, which I believe
> since I only have 15k on the car.  I asked him what the problem could be and
> he said I need to have the rotors turned...he said it is common and not
> really a problem, more of an annoyance.  Does this sound reasonable?  He
> said it costs around $60 for just the fronts which sounds expensive to me
> but I don't really know.  Also, should I expect VW to pick up the tab on
> this since I've only got 15k on the car?  I don't think that sounds
> unreasonable...
> --
> Joel Bell
> jbell@ptd.net
> 1997 VW Jetta GLX-VR6-Neuspeed-Autotech
> Kenwood/MB Quart/Orion/PPI/Stinger/Phoenix Gold