gocrazyw/TL

the steering wheel vibrates when the car is completely stopped in drive like for example when i am at a red light. however, right after i accelerate to about 5 mph, the vibration goes away. Is this normal?

BostonTL

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johnnyb_s

Are you saying that once the car is completely stopped, as in not moving at all, the steering wheel vibrates and continues to vibrate until you accelerate to a speed of 5mph, then it goes away? If so, that isn't warped rotors, but something else...

marko

It looks like that is a “feature” of this car. It is interesting that a steering wheel is completely dead on Honda Accord, the way it should be, but on TL it slightly vibrates when the engine idles even though engine has those hydraulic mounts. This quite surprised me and I thought my car has problem until I checked 4 or 5 other TL-s. Does anybody know the reason why?

VCs_TL

sounds like you might be having some idleing issues. do you have the ac on? what year is your car?

gocrazyw/TL

it's a 2002 tl-p. the steering vibrates regardless of the AC. The wheel doesnt vibrate when i apply the brakes. It only vibrates when the car is stationary and the brakes are fully applied.

bigman

Yeah, most the TL's that i have been in have that problem of the vibration, but they dont vibrate really bad, just enough to notice.

gocrazyw/TL

ok cool, i just wanted to make sure it wasnt somethign wrong with the car. do u guys also notice that the engine is pretty loud until you run the car for about 15-20 minutes?