My Bongo dont feel right!
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My Bongo dont feel right!
Hi all need a bit of help, when i am driving my bongo over 60mph it feels like its being over taken by a large vehicle it pulls to the right then back to the left or like what it feels when its very windy. I had new tyres put on the back in july but we have swopped them over but it makes no difference , also had the tracking done. Do any off you folks know what it is?
Cheers for now Leets
Cheers for now Leets
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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
Have a rummage around the front wishbones/ball joints.
Mine had a few wierd things going on like that until the last MOT notced a knackered ball joint.
It drives like new now!!

Mine had a few wierd things going on like that until the last MOT notced a knackered ball joint.
It drives like new now!!

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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
Front tyre pressures ok?
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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
Hi,
I'd check the following:
Tyres are the same make/model/size (I had 2 different sizes on the front of mine originally).
Pressures
Tracking
Are your brakes binding.
Andy
I'd check the following:
Tyres are the same make/model/size (I had 2 different sizes on the front of mine originally).
Pressures
Tracking
Are your brakes binding.
Andy
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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
Is this most noticeable in lane1 of a motorway Leets?Leets wrote:Hi all need a bit of help, when i am driving my bongo over 60mph it feels like its being over taken by a large vehicle it pulls to the right then back to the left or like what it feels when its very windy. I had new tyres put on the back in july but we have swopped them over but it makes no difference , also had the tracking done. Do any off you folks know what it is?
Cheers for now Leets
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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
bigdaddycain wrote:Is this most noticeable in lane1 of a motorway Leets?Leets wrote:Hi all need a bit of help, when i am driving my bongo over 60mph it feels like its being over taken by a large vehicle it pulls to the right then back to the left or like what it feels when its very windy. I had new tyres put on the back in july but we have swopped them over but it makes no difference , also had the tracking done. Do any off you folks know what it is?
Cheers for now Leets
I was trhinking the same big D, mine follows the ruts


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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
Yup, the bigger the wheels the more prone it seems to be Dar. Sometimes my steering feels so vague (as both wheels attempt to climb out of the ruts,counteracting each other giving a "floating" feel) That it's quite disturbing...It gets me paranoid in case a bobby is behind me and gives me a tug! 

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Good point on the larger wheels. I've noticed the accelera tyres I now have are much better than the previous pirelli P0's which was a surprise. Drives completely differently than before.
Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
bigdaddycain wrote:Yup, the bigger the wheels the more prone it seems to be Dar. Sometimes my steering feels so vague (as both wheels attempt to climb out of the ruts,counteracting each other giving a "floating" feel) That it's quite disturbing...It gets me paranoid in case a bobby is behind me and gives me a tug!
They not given me a tug since the 19 i had


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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
I had 2 perreli's on the front of mine awfull it was took em straight back for me xtra load bridgestones, huge differenceapole wrote:Good point on the larger wheels. I've noticed the accelera tyres I now have are much better than the previous pirelli P0's which was a surprise. Drives completely differently than before.

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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
Thanks for all your replys lots to look at and to think about will let you know how i get on.
Thanks again
Thanks again
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Re: My Bongo dont feel right!
With a bit of luck it'll be something simple, and hopefully cheap! 

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