Steering Wheel Shake

[mrsteve]

I am have a problem with my steering wheel shaking. It happens while I am braking or when i reach high speeds (70+). Any ideas? thanks

 

[Nonoy]

Steering wheel shaking at certain speed means you need wheel balancing. Shakes while braking means a wrapped rotor. I suggest go with wheel balancing first. Dead Link Removed

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1997 XLT, V6 SOHC
NY State of Mind

 

[Stephen]

I agree, do the wheel balancing first. if that dosn't sure it up go for the rotors. Do it quick though, because I let an unbalanced wheel ruin a tire of mine one time, dosn't take that long.


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Stephen Withrow
StephenLS400@aol.com
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97 Explorer Limited 4X4 SOHC V6
98 Lexus LS400

 

[The Godfather]

You might also want to try a steering stabilizer. They run around $40. One of those helped smooth out the steering with me.

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93 XLT 4 door
Big, green, and slow

 

[mrsteve]

Thanks alot, hey Stephen i live in MD too. I live outside silver spring in colesville. Are there any good off road traills around us??

 

[Stephen]

Hey! I bought my Explorer at Crystal Ford in Silver Spring off of Colesville Rd, in the Montgomery Auto Sales Park. There aren't very many offroad trails around here. If you get on I66 East and then take I81 South, there are some close to Shanendoah Caverns.

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Stephen Withrow
StephenLS400@aol.com
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97 Explorer Limited 4X4 SOHC V6
98 Lexus LS400

 

[OzMaToz]

I had the same problem not too long ago. I had just had the front end aligned, but it still seemed to shake like crazy around 65mph. It got so bad that it would send my drinks flying out of the console. Turns out it was two things. First since I had let the alignment go for so long, one of my tires was really unevenly worn, second, the place I brought it to the second time said that the shim on the side with the worn wheel needed replacement, and the previous shop had just tried to move things around to avoid replacing the shim. Hope this helps! Dead Link Removed

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The Oz Man -94XLT-
ozmatoz@hotmail.com

 

[Nate]

Having a Brake Shop check for a warped rotor is free, balancing costs money. I would do the warp check first, then the balancing if they aren't warped.