Morning all,
I've been given my dad's 99 v70 T5 for a few days to change over his headlights as the old ones were so dull Im amazed he saw anything at all in the dark! I couldn't help but notice a few faults with the car!
First and foremost - anything above 50mph and the car seems to want to shake itself into destruction! It's an odd shake/rumble/vibration that seems to oscillate from the front to the back of the car, over and over, really weird! My dad is sure he's had the wheels balanced, tyres are fairly new and the wheels still seem to be round and not egg shaped!
What would be the next culprit to tick off the list? Drive shaft? Wheel bearing? Any particular bushes? When jacked up, nothing looks obviously worn or out of place.
Secondly - this could be me, but the car feels down on power. She's standard apart from a cat back stainless exhaust and pipercross panel filter. When driving, she revs fine and does pull - but not as strong as I'd think she should. You dont get that "pushed back into the seat feeling" when flooring it, no feel of the turbo kicking in. She behaves more like a N/A. Car is regularly serviced and nothing seems obviously wrong. Like i said, it could be just me being used to driving my mapped D5 where the power surges all in one go!
I understand this is a complete new thread starter and has been done a million times - but what bolt on bits could make it go faster? And crucially, in what order to do it? I.E - exhaust and intake, then injectors and bigger turbo (16T currently fitted as standard iirc?), then a remap to utilize the mods done?
She has done 172k miles, so I expect some horses have escaped, but not that much I hope!
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