Severe Steering Wheel Shake on Terios S

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Hi Everyone

Being new to this forum I thought I would share my recent discovered solution to a severe staeering wheel shake my local Dealer has been unable to cure for the past 2 years!!!!!

After driving some 50K miles with an awful shake which really kicked in around 60 MPH and faded out at about 80 MPH, I had given up entirely on my local Dealership being skilled enough to trace the fault...they kept saying they would have top throw parts at it and pass the cost to me until they founbd the problem...what a load of tosh!

I decided to investigate this myself, firstly by taking the front wheels off, changing the discs and pads as I had had issues with a previous car it turned out to be a warped disc...well, well, well it turned out to be a pretty crap designed set of slide pins to the front offside caliper preventing the pads from gliding correctly. When the warn pads were taken off they were both worn in a taper, suggesting they were sticking on one slide pin...and I can see why.

there are two bellows type rubber sleeves located between the caliper and the mounting into which the slide pins pass water gets into these rubber sleeves corroding the pins, once this happens the pads start to stick, in my case one edge was constantly in contact with the disc.

I have now replaced the pads, pins, sleeves and discs and drives like a dream...shame my Dealer didn't have the brains to figure this out and save me 50K miles of shake and one set of prematurely worn tyres...I suggest every Terios (new shape owner checks these pins on a regular basis.

Hope this helps someone else!