My sterring wheel produces a pretty bad side to side vibration that becomes more noticable under acceleration and especially at highway speeds. If u let go of the wheel u can actually see it bouncing back and forth from side to side and when u hold on to it it can at times be bad enough to give u a full body massage. At lower speeds it is almost unoticable and at times it is fine on the highway but a majority of the time it vibrates badly. I had an alignment done when I hada my snow tires put on thinking that maybe it was an alignment issue or caused by worn tires. The problem is now at times even worse. Anyone have any idea whut could be causing this? I checkout the entire suspension and nothing appered to be bent or broken, could it be something in the actual steering rack? I am thinking that something may have come loose somewhere because at times the steering even feels a little funny and slow and at other times its fine. Any help would be great.

 

The tires are unblanaced . get them rebalanced where you got them installed they should not charge you

 

It's either 1 of 3 things:

1) Your rotors are warped due to material transfer/improper installation of the rims
2) A wheel weight fell off
3) Defective wheel bearing

Do a search for more detailed info.

 

tires or rims

 

i lived exactly what you are talking about. 2 months ago I purchased Kumho kw17 performance winter tires. From the 1st second in my car I could feel a very big vibration @ 60mph. I called the guy and so he told me to come in and he'd redo the balancing. I went to the shop and he rebalanced the tires. HE asked me if I flat spotted the tires while braking too har. IMPOSSIBLE, I have abs...So he noticed the tires look sorta out of round when he was spinning them on the balancing machine. HE totaly unmounted all 4 tires and remounted them along with new balancing. 1 tire seemed to be still out of round so he ordered a new one. I go home and still feel the vibration @ 70mph. I'm now on my 3rd trip to this tire place and he replaces the deffective tire and I go home, I still get a vibration, but it's much smaller and mostly @ high speeds and so I tell him it feels mostly OK. 2 weeks later I've had enough! I go into the shop and order LM-22 blizzaks. I only paid the difference between the two, It still costed me $1000 CAD for the lm-22's but now I have NO VIBRATION. So, take your car back and get the tires checked. I guarantee its the same thing. Make sure they take off all weights, including the stick on one. SOme places don't take them off cause they are VERY sticky and so they just counter balance the tire. BAD idea. Trust me, take the tires back. GET LM-22's

 

Out of balance tires or alignment is out of specs. ( front toe's might be toed out esccecively, or maybe a loose tie rod end )

 

mojambo I also have the LM-22's, and I have a friend at the dealer where I had them mounted and balanced and he told me that they were dead on. Now short of him lying to me which is possible but I would dought it I don't think that the balance in the problem. Nad1370 I had an alignment done when I had my new tires put on and they said that they reset it to factory specs so if I can belive them that eliminates that option as well. I am starting to lean to something wrong in the steering system, possibly even a loose inner tie rod. A few months ago I clipped the side of a road curb fairly well possibly causing the problem over time? I dought it is the tires because it was doing the same thing with the stock Yokos. I think I am gonna have the dealer inspect the steering/syspension system for me and see whut they say. Anything else u guys can think of if it is in the steering?

 

[QUOTE=HwangTKD]It's either 1 of 3 things:

1) Your rotors are warped due to material transfer/improper installation of the rims
2) A wheel weight fell off
3) Defective wheel bearing

If my rotors are warped would that be causing a sterring vibration? If so what are some other possible effects of this? My brakeing seems to be fine 99% of the time but once in a while either under like panic stop brakeing conditions or while slidding the brake pedal will go extremely firm and the brakes almost seem to stop opperating, and when I push on the pedal hard enough I get some odd metal on metal sounds and the pedal pushes back at me almost like the abs is activating but it isn't. Could this also be a cause of it?

 

so all of this did not show up after the install of your new tires then ?

 

Just go and get your tires balanced. I dont think it would hurt tyhe car.

 

no I have had the problem even with my original tires, I thought that the new tires/alignment/balancing would take care of the problem but its still there.

 

have them check the tire runout