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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 03:26 PM
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bad shaking steering wheel

my wheel is shaking on braking , so times is bad and some times its really bad like crazy shaking .

what could be wrong . the dealer said it was fine when i took it for "i think it was " 23,5 maintenance . sooooo.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 04:04 PM
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humm thats weird, i know i had that problem once. I took it in and they told me it was the alignment that was acting up. After they fixed it, it was alllllllllllllllll good.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 04:05 PM
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Take it to a mechanic and tell them your problem. It could be an uneven brake pad or something with your wheel alignment.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by twentyone
Take it to a mechanic and tell them your problem. It could be an uneven brake pad or something with your wheel alignment.
It could be the presure on the tires check it on both!
I got the problem once and with the correct tire presure(32 psi) it got ok! take a look on it!
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 06:38 PM
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you may jst need new tires/rotors...my car did the same thing and i replaced the tires and walah...and it was the same on my dad's dakota(rotors)
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 08:46 PM
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could be a number of things.....like they said: check tire pressure, tires may be out of balance, rotors warped, or alignment issues.
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 04:05 AM
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Wheel balance is a common cause of that, the worst case I have seen was with one of the work utes, drove fine until you got to around 60km/h then it started bouncing around from the right front wheel uncontrollably. As it turned out it was the steering coming apart - so u may want to get it checked by a mechanic pronto in case its something like that
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 08:24 AM
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if it is only on braking that it shakes, id bet on excessive lateral runout of the rotors. sounds like an excuse to get some sloted ones or the big break conversion kit.
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 08:59 AM
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Since you only mentioned it happens while breaking my best guess would be warped rotors.
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 09:40 AM
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my car was doing the samething and i got my rotors shaved and fixed the problem and i got better brake pads. i would try that doesnt cost much to get them shaved.
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 10:31 AM
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had the smae problem then found out i only had 25psi in my tires and i should of had 50psi , so i filled all my tireds up with a , and problem solved
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 10:40 AM
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is it only when you brake? If so your rotors might be warped and ya might wanna get them checked. But if your steering wheel shakes on braking and during high speeds then you need a wheel balance, ya mighta lost a weight on the wheel or somethin. Hope this helps
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by sp0rk
had the smae problem then found out i only had 25psi in my tires and i should of had 50psi , so i filled all my tireds up with a , and problem solved
um our cars call for 32 psi all the way around, i think you might wanna let someo air outta them puppies!
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 06:20 PM
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Do you have repaired any of your tires b'cause could be a balancing problem !
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 11:00 PM
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i have toyo proxey 4s
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