Hi All,
Just returned from a 3000km round trip up North of WA in the NS GLX. I noticed on severely corrugated roads that at around 50-60km/h I would get a bell-like 'clang' coming from the steering wheel on the worst corrugations intermittently - sounded like a bell being tapped with a hammer - ie metal on metal.
I'm pretty sure it came from the wheel housing itself, as it sounded very close and with my hand on the rear part of the wheel housing I could feel the vibration that coincided with the noise.
It was definitely due to the vibration rather than rocks pinging off the underside of the vehicle or anything like that.
Just wondering if anyone else has heard this?
As an aside, I found running the Cooper ATR's at around 28psi warm provided the best ride over corrugations at between 60-80km/h. Running them at 35psi made the ride a lot more harsh.
Besides the 'clang' in the wheel - the Paj performed flawlessly off-road. It was in its element in deep soft sand on the beach in 4Lo with 18psi in the tyres, successfully extracting a couple of other 4bys bogged down to the axles. The MATT traction control only served to keep it going. Stories about the traction control hindering progress in soft sand are just that - absolute fantasies.
Just returned from a 3000km round trip up North of WA in the NS GLX. I noticed on severely corrugated roads that at around 50-60km/h I would get a bell-like 'clang' coming from the steering wheel on the worst corrugations intermittently - sounded like a bell being tapped with a hammer - ie metal on metal.
I'm pretty sure it came from the wheel housing itself, as it sounded very close and with my hand on the rear part of the wheel housing I could feel the vibration that coincided with the noise.
It was definitely due to the vibration rather than rocks pinging off the underside of the vehicle or anything like that.
Just wondering if anyone else has heard this?
As an aside, I found running the Cooper ATR's at around 28psi warm provided the best ride over corrugations at between 60-80km/h. Running them at 35psi made the ride a lot more harsh.
Besides the 'clang' in the wheel - the Paj performed flawlessly off-road. It was in its element in deep soft sand on the beach in 4Lo with 18psi in the tyres, successfully extracting a couple of other 4bys bogged down to the axles. The MATT traction control only served to keep it going. Stories about the traction control hindering progress in soft sand are just that - absolute fantasies.
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