Front end vibration battle

[MeOmYo]

2001 Golf, 226k, vibration is mostly in 4th & 5th, under load at ~2500-3000 rpms.

I've had this vibration in the front end for a month or so and last week I thought I'd try to remedy the problem by replacing, what I thought was a bad drivers side CV shaft assembly. Turns out, that did nothing to help so I removed the passenger side axle and replaced the inner CV joint with the CV joint off the driver's side I had removed. Vibration is still there. I've checked the motor mounts and bolts and they are all fine/tight. Tires, ball joints, wheel bearings etc are all good so I think I'm good from wheels to tranny. I'm not really sure what to look for on the dogbone as I've read these can cause this as well.

Any suggestions?

 

[oilhammer]

Control arm bushings?

 

[MeOmYo]

I took a good look at everything on the driver's side and all was good but forgot to when I had the pass. side apart. I did replace them ~50k ago with TT bushings.

 

[MeOmYo]

How do I check the dogbone?

 

[South Coast Guy]

tire balance?

 

[MeOmYo]

tires are balanced

 

[sootwagen]

Control arm bushings?

Plus 1.

 

[jetmec]

Have you tried rotating your tires? might just have a bad tire up there.

 

[MeOmYo]

Have you tried rotating your tires? might just have a bad tire up there.

I have. Tires are good.

 

[dbuzalski]

mk4 vibration

Hello,

I'm working on a '02 jetta with what sounds like the same symptom, it has a vibration under load 3rd, 4th and 5th, but at most any rpm, though it is more noticeable at lower rpms. It's not a low frequency vibration (wobble) like an inner cv, it feels almost like a bad bearing in the trans or the dog bone mount is making metal to metal contact under acceleration, but I don't see anything obvious wrong.

I was wondering there was ever a resolution to the problem on this thread?

thanks
Dave