Rear toe out and vibrating on motorway

Hi, this is my first post. Just bought a 61 reg 1.6 hdi from a non-brand second hand dealer which has done 18000 miles. Essentially, we found the car was vibrating in the steering wheel at about 65 mph+ and therefore went to get the tracking done. I was shown the errors by the garage which showed the front toe were out and they corrected this. However the rear toe on the left wheel was out. I was advised that he wouldn't be able to adjust this due to being a solid rear axle, but said to not worry about it :s

Anyway, the vibrations have reduced slightly but it's still vibrating more than I would expect on a car of this age. Does anyone have any ideas please with regards to what could be causing the vibrations in the steering wheel/pedals and the negative toe on the rear wheel.

Thanks in advance

Welcome to the C3 forum Hoppy82

Hoppy82 wrote:Essentially, we found the car was vibrating in the steering wheel at about 65 mph+ and therefore went to get the tracking done.

My first stop would have to get the wheels balanced for a vibrating at speed problem.

Hoppy82 wrote:Anyway, the vibrations have reduced slightly but it's still vibrating more than I would expect on a car of this age. Does anyone have any ideas please with regards to what could be causing the vibrations in the steering wheel/pedals and the negative toe on the rear wheel.

Vibrations are most probably due to unbalanced wheels I would go back to F1 Autocentres after booking an appointment online to get the wheels balanced.

Hoppy82 wrote:However the rear toe on the left wheel was out. I was advised that he wouldn't be able to adjust this due to being a solid rear axle, but said to not worry about it :s

Sloppy rear suspension bushes maybe, damaged wheel bearing possibly? not something you can 'adjust' like you can with the front track rod ends.

Hoppy82 wrote:Anyway, the vibrations have reduced slightly but it's still vibrating more than I would expect on a car of this age.

Even the ones that are over 10 years don't vibrate at 65+ MPH



Here is a picture of the rear 'axle' on a 2010 and on Citroen C3.

Thanks for the reply. I'll get the wheel balance done in the next couple of days and update if this sorts it out.