Shaking steering

Blue_Eyes

Hi All, I recently had the alignment done on the wheels but still the steering wheel if off centre by about 1” but that’s not really my concern at the moment. The steering shakes really badly when I get up to motorway speed 120kph but its ok at 110kph. I recently put 4 new tyres on so it can’t be unbalanced tyres or could new tyres be unbalanced? Any ideas would be a great help.

dodger

first i would take the car back to get the alignment done again just to make sure all the wheels are pointing in the right direction.

you could get the wheels re-balanced just to confirm that a weight hasn't come off and to eliminate the wheels and tyres.

then the only other factor would be the suspension or steering components.

JohnnyN

Tyres new or old need to be balanced. If the car was ok before the work was carried out then it can only be the alignment and balancing causing the problem. ;-)

Blue_Eyes

Looks like ill have to get them aligned again and get the wheels balanced just to eliminate all factors. I do get a weird noise when I go over speed bumps so maybe that has something to do with it. I don’t know how much cash I’ve put into this car so far but there always seems to be something wrong with it . Really starting to get pissed off with it but I wont be getting rid of it because No.1, I’ve put so much cash into it and ill only have to do the same if I get another car as things go wrong it and No.2 reason is because I love her too much to see her go………………………….Ah well . :roll:

sdbutler10

sounds like wheel balancing to me or wheel alighment

Sjdickso

As said above sounds like wheel balance.

Blue_Eyes

HI All, went to get the tracting done and it turned out i needed two new tyres also, which kinda peed me off cos i only got two tyres 5 months ago. It cost me 260e all together which is ok cos i got my missus puncture done too. Now the car is straight as a die and NO shakey steering. Sweet :thumbup:

dodger

glad thats all sorted now, i take it that the tyres were causing the problem then.

Blue_Eyes

dodger said:
glad thats all sorted now, i take it that the tyres were causing the problem then.

It was for sure but the tracking was out as well which I only had done 2 months ago. Must of hit a big pot hole ? Anyway the car is all back to normal now……… but for how long? :shh: