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Vibration in steering wheel at 50mph and up

Discussion in 'New Members' started by Doug111h, Sep 13, 2023.

  1. Sep 13, 2023 at 6:40 PM
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    Doug111h

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    I recently bought 4 new tires and now my steering wheel shakes really hard and you can see the shifter shaking along with it at 50 or 55mph and up. It doesn't matter if you are on the gas or break or in neutral anything over 50 and its shaking. I changed the rack and pinion, tie rods, intermediate steering shaft, and sway bar links that weekend and no change. Then I had the tires rebalanced and rotated still no change. The next day I took it in for an alignment and asked them to look at it. They aligned it and wrote me a 2000 dollar quote to change the struts, upper control arms, breaks rotors and driverside axle. I looked at them and visually the upper control arms do need changed so I ordered them today. And the rest don't look terrible and why would new tires make them start acting up. Yesterday I did the front brakes and rotors and it's still vibrating. Before I dump anymore into parts I would like to get your thoughts and experiences
     
  2. Sep 13, 2023 at 6:43 PM
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    TacoCat

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    If it started with the new tires, i would suspect the tires are the culprit. There is a method of balancing called road force balancing them. Perhaps that could do the trick.
     
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  3. Sep 13, 2023 at 6:56 PM
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    I've read about it. I'll call around tomorrow and try to find a shop that has one
     
  4. Sep 13, 2023 at 10:41 PM
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    I had this in a 94 Toyota pickup that had a huge lift kit.I think it can happen when the tires aren't balanced or aligned. Some call it speed wobbles. Are the wheels aftermarket? This can also happen if the center bore is a different size than the stock bore.
     
  5. Sep 14, 2023 at 7:42 AM
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    The wheels are stock and I never put a lift on it
     
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    Maybe someone who does tires can better explain...
    New tires come with 2 dots painted on the sidewall. one dot is for valve stem location the other is for weights.
     
  7. Sep 14, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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    I found a place that does road force balancing. I'm going to stop on my way home from work. I'll let you know if it works
     
  8. Sep 14, 2023 at 3:57 PM
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    Road force balancing done. They didn't even need to spin the tires so they just did a normal balancing and my problem was fixed. Laney tire has a bad machine or a bad technician I guess.
     

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