Hi all, long time since I've been on here, but that's because my Surf has just been utterly reliable with no problems for a long time.

Until now...

Coming back from 'down south' last weekend and the Surf developed a judder at 20/40/60mph, along with a clunking jingling...

just picked up a new (old) 3.0 Surf, but noticed the alternator which was recently relaced seems to vibrate quite a lot on what might be rubber mounts when ticking over. Is this normal for this engine? As I'm pretty sure anything with those sort of belts around it has been fixed in place on any...

After a few thousand km's of wobble I found a pro tyre shop with the LUG centric balancing adaptor.

For a mere €7.50 plus €5.50 to remove wheel - all five are done .... no more vibrations.

The guy was obliged to do them three times each and the final weights had to be...