CAR SHAKE! on the highway
12-01-2010, 11:48 AM
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2014 Jeep SRT
Get your axles checked out, get your wheels balanced and/or get an alignment. Or stop going 100mph. :P
it's gotta be that vtec haha
12-01-2010, 09:33 PM
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Heh, if he lives in Socal its understandable. After spending hours in traffic, its hard to not go fast. BTW I've driven to Vegas up to 110, and car was smooth, so check your tires.
12-01-2010, 10:42 PM
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Could be a number of things (or even a combination of them). Out of balance tire would be first guess, bent rim, broken belt or possibly a bad wheel bearing. Most likely a balance issue.
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12-02-2010, 12:54 AM
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I've kind of got the same issue, took the car up to ~115 the other night and it felt "unstable" compared to before.
Check..
- Wheel bearings
- Wheel Balance
- Tire pressure
- Axles
- Ball joints
- Lower Control Arm Bushings
- Tighten Lugs
- Jack up your car. Grab your tire at the top and the bottom, now have someone push the top and pull the bottom. You look to see if anything moves or has any play in it.
- Repeat the steps above but grab the tire on the sides.
Hope this helps you bro.
I'm also in the process of figuring my issue out. After doing the shake test, I noticed that one of my control arm bolts had loosened up so I'll be tightening that up tomorrow and checking for any other crap that might be wrong.
The fact that my tires are bald doesn't help much either..
haha
Check..
- Wheel bearings
- Wheel Balance
- Tire pressure
- Axles
- Ball joints
- Lower Control Arm Bushings
- Tighten Lugs
- Jack up your car. Grab your tire at the top and the bottom, now have someone push the top and pull the bottom. You look to see if anything moves or has any play in it.
- Repeat the steps above but grab the tire on the sides.
Hope this helps you bro.
I'm also in the process of figuring my issue out. After doing the shake test, I noticed that one of my control arm bolts had loosened up so I'll be tightening that up tomorrow and checking for any other crap that might be wrong. The fact that my tires are bald doesn't help much either..
haha
12-02-2010, 10:37 PM
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I've kind of got the same issue, took the car up to ~115 the other night and it felt "unstable" compared to before.
Check..
- Wheel bearings
- Wheel Balance
- Tire pressure
- Axles
- Ball joints
- Lower Control Arm Bushings
- Tighten Lugs
- Jack up your car. Grab your tire at the top and the bottom, now have someone push the top and pull the bottom. You look to see if anything moves or has any play in it.
- Repeat the steps above but grab the tire on the sides.
Hope this helps you bro. I'm also in the process of figuring my issue out. After doing the shake test, I noticed that one of my control arm bolts had loosened up so I'll be tightening that up tomorrow and checking for any other crap that might be wrong.
The fact that my tires are bald doesn't help much either..
haha
Check..
- Wheel bearings
- Wheel Balance
- Tire pressure
- Axles
- Ball joints
- Lower Control Arm Bushings
- Tighten Lugs
- Jack up your car. Grab your tire at the top and the bottom, now have someone push the top and pull the bottom. You look to see if anything moves or has any play in it.
- Repeat the steps above but grab the tire on the sides.
Hope this helps you bro.
I'm also in the process of figuring my issue out. After doing the shake test, I noticed that one of my control arm bolts had loosened up so I'll be tightening that up tomorrow and checking for any other crap that might be wrong. The fact that my tires are bald doesn't help much either..
haha
12-02-2010, 10:44 PM
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Vtec, I have the same problem when my Type S hits Mach 1.
12-03-2010, 01:14 PM
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Lol, no I'm from Brooklyn NY I was going over 100 Mph on NJ Turnpike :-). I'm going to Blanace out my wheels today, hopefully that helps! JustnSpace Thank You for concering about my safety ;-).
12-04-2010, 08:48 AM
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there are several other threads on vibrations...you may want to do a search on that to help you out....
also you may want to consider road force balancing if standard dynamic spin balancing doesn't work (assuming its your wheels and tires).
just a thought...
also you may want to consider road force balancing if standard dynamic spin balancing doesn't work (assuming its your wheels and tires).
just a thought...
12-04-2010, 12:54 PM
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Same here. Had the cruise set to 110 following a friend's Z06 at 2am. Average mph was 101 because we slowed to a reasonable speed through any populated areas. Had to back off at State Line because we might actually get a ticket in NV. TL was as smooth as can be.
12-04-2010, 01:33 PM
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How do you manage to go 100 on the Turnpike? I've never been on, but it's a pretty famous road, and NY/NJ area isn't really out in the sticks now, is it?
12-04-2010, 06:51 PM
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I had vibs so i took it in for alignment and balance...turns out my aligmentwas all retarded but the big problem was a bent rim. so i replaced it but i still have some vibs.......im thinking that since i was driving on a bent rim for some time it may have worn my tire down unevenly,and that might be why i still have some vibs.....does that sound logical?
orrrrr....i was also thinking, we aligned it befor we took the tires off and balanced them...cold doin an alignmenton a bent rim through off he alignment process
orrrrr....i was also thinking, we aligned it befor we took the tires off and balanced them...cold doin an alignmenton a bent rim through off he alignment process
12-04-2010, 08:52 PM
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I had vibs so i took it in for alignment and balance...turns out my aligmentwas all retarded but the big problem was a bent rim. so i replaced it but i still have some vibs.......im thinking that since i was driving on a bent rim for some time it may have worn my tire down unevenly,and that might be why i still have some vibs.....does that sound logical?
orrrrr....i was also thinking, we aligned it befor we took the tires off and balanced them...cold doin an alignmenton a bent rim through off he alignment process
orrrrr....i was also thinking, we aligned it befor we took the tires off and balanced them...cold doin an alignmenton a bent rim through off he alignment process
Definately. If the rim was not true, the entire alignment is no good.
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