Help! Car shakes back an forth while driving

WideKyle · Post by **WideKyle** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:19 pm

So i was heading to work today when my car started shaking horribly, so i pulled over no flats or nothing i could just see without jacking the car up. so i go back to my house and take off all the wheels and didnt notice anything my axle did wiggle alittle bit like a mm or 2 of movement. i took the car out again and noticed that it starts shaking a little before 25mph then when you get to 30mph it gets really noticalbly bad. Does anyone know what the hell could be wrong, all i can guess is my axles.

thanks Kyle

-Devil- · Post by **-Devil-** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:30 pm

could also be the wheel balance ... or a bad spot on a tire ...

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:32 pm

Poss shifted belt in tire

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:33 pm

did you check if the tire pressure is correct, and the same in all of the tires?

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:16 am

have you ever locked up your brakes??? this cause flat spots on my tires which made my car shake like crazy at about 85-90mph.

- Tire pressure
- bad alignment...
- bent rim
- bad tire

boostinss · Post by **boostinss** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:36 am

i had a bad tire and it made my car shake soo bad

WideKyle · Post by **WideKyle** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:43 am

thanks for the help, from what i hear, tomorrow im gonna just go to a tire place cause im hearing its tire balance and im gonna check my alignment and shit because i never did that after lowering my vechicle, but that was like 2 years ago.

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:58 am

damn man... when you drop your car your alignment gets messed up

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:13 am

it could of been a weight that fell off of the rim. i know it happened to me.

-Devil- · Post by **-Devil-** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:18 am

i would say your alignment is out ... for sure ... plus with 2+ years after lowering .. if it is the same tires .. they are prob all uneven for the wear...

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:32 am

This is why forums are somethimes bad. Alot of people with no experience telling you different things to throw at the car. I deal with this stuff everyday and most the time a low speed wobble is caused by shifted belts, bad axles or a loose wheel. Just goto a tire store you trust and tell them it has a low speed wobble and let them figure it out

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:51 am

when you get this checked out, post what happen and what they found.

60trim · Post by **60trim** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:53 am

SlvrACR wrote:This is why forums are somethimes bad. Alot of people with no experience telling you different things to throw at the car. I deal with this stuff everyday and most the time a low speed wobble is caused by shifted belts, bad axles or a loose wheel. Just goto a tire store you trust and tell them it has a low speed wobble and let them figure it out

you just came off as a jerk right there. Check your balance of your tires. Like 03se said, it could have been a weight, but take it to a shop, explain what happened, have them look at it, ask them if you were right. If so, woo hoo, more power to ya. If not, learn and move on.

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:11 pm

yea mang.. what everyone said above you was fairly accurate.. all good things to check anyways..before shelling out some doh, that you might not need to spend.

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:32 pm

IDC if I sounded like a jerk why make him go out and spend money if he doesnt need it. All he has to do is take it to a shop he trusts and they should find it fairly quick. I deal with this s$%t all day.
If he goes to a shop and is like I need my tires balanced this and that checked, they will just check it and charge him no matter if its bad or not. If they tell you the balance is off and it doesnt fix it then its up to them to fix it or you dont pay for the work

60trim wrote:
SlvrACR wrote:This is why forums are somethimes bad. Alot of people with no experience telling you different things to throw at the car. I deal with this stuff everyday and most the time a low speed wobble is caused by shifted belts, bad axles or a loose wheel. Just goto a tire store you trust and tell them it has a low speed wobble and let them figure it out
you just came off as a jerk right there. Check your balance of your tires. Like 03se said, it could have been a weight, but take it to a shop, explain what happened, have them look at it, ask them if you were right. If so, woo hoo, more power to ya. If not, learn and move on.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:01 pm

Your car is broke, you need a new one.

Great advice eh?

WykedHellFire · Post by **WykedHellFire** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:06 pm

I had the same thing happen to me, I took it to midas and the guy told me i should junk the car because it was too much to fix...but then i took it to somebody i knew I could trust and they looked at it, ended up getting two new tires... so much for "too much to fix" sometimes people can be a@@es...

midas guy =

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refect · Post by **refect** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:16 pm

it does some super hard core wobbleing. i can feel it in the floor board and everything. you can even see it in the dash if you stare at it. when i drove it, it felt like the car was gonna break in half from wobbling so hard. it will start to do it around 35 and it gets worse and worse as speed progresses. you can almsot feel it more in the passenger side than anything, but it pulls to the left as it starts to do it. rebalanced wheels/tires and it still does it. checked axels because thoguht one might of popped out a little; they were fine and it still does it. i switched on my 4 wheels/tries on his car and it still does it. it is crazy.

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:30 pm

try checking the suspension components and narrow it down from there.

refect · Post by **refect** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:44 pm

yeh thats what i figured it had to be...somethin with the suspension. we looked at steering rack too and the tie rods have no play or anything in them.

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:06 pm

refect wrote:yeh thats what i figured it had to be...somethin with the suspension. we looked at steering rack too and the tie rods have no play or anything in them.

hmm, thats tough.

i would guess it would be a bushing. how many miles on the car?

WideKyle · Post by **WideKyle** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:48 pm

Yea, just like refect was saying, cant figure out whats goin on, its is pissin me off, i have 58,000 miles on the car, shakes bad if you accelerate up to 25 then after that it feels so horrible. but if you just very slowly get up to speed its dosnt shake or its hardly noticable, if i cruise with it its fine. if anyone has anymore ideas or a cimilar experience i would be glad to hear it. So hopefully i can figure something out before i take it to the dodge dealership to get my wallet raped.

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:52 pm

maybe a bad motor mount, most likely the lower motor strut mount. they usually dont last long.

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:07 am

^^ isn't paralyzer having problems with motor mounts.??? if so he would be able to let you know if the shaking is similar.

Panhead · Post by **Panhead** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:45 am

i had problems with the lower motor strut mount. the a/c pulley used to grind on the front firewall.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:07 pm

hansken_yo wrote:^^ isn't paralyzer having problems with motor mounts.??? if so he would be able to let you know if the shaking is similar.

yes he was...he had to replace 2 or 3 of them and his car is an 05! Pm him and see if he has any ideas?

kc2005ptgt · Post by **kc2005ptgt** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:27 am

kevo also is having motor problems and he replaced the... there is a recent thread about it, and he ended up having someone show him the movement in the engine. See if you all can look for his post and follow the instructions he posted that his mechanic told him how to see the engine movement.

Just a though... poh, and SlvrACR you're a jerk

blue demon02 · Post by **blue demon02** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:01 am

check your wheel bearings: Jack the car up so wheels are of the ground have buddy hold the steering wheel and try to move the wheels back and forth if they have any play with out moving the steering rack you got a bad wheel bearing.

Also find someone with rollers. State inspection station, dyno something that you can get it rolling and make the vibration and see if you can see whats moving that shouldn't be.

SLVRACR is a jerk but so am I. I think he is compleatly rite. I deal with the dumbest crap when I work at the tire shop. He is not wrong. I have seen shops who will charge someone for a new tire just because there valve stem is bad. People don't know any better. They go on a forum and get bad information and go drop all kinds of money cause someone told them too. The whole time the guy that told them too didn't know what he was talking about.

60trim wrote:
SlvrACR wrote:This is why forums are somethimes bad. Alot of people with no experience telling you different things to throw at the car. I deal with this stuff everyday and most the time a low speed wobble is caused by shifted belts, bad axles or a loose wheel. Just goto a tire store you trust and tell them it has a low speed wobble and let them figure it out
you just came off as a jerk right there. Check your balance of your tires. Like 03se said, it could have been a weight, but take it to a shop, explain what happened, have them look at it, ask them if you were right. If so, woo hoo, more power to ya. If not, learn and move on.

It can't be a out of ballence tire. If your tire is out of ballence it will only vibrate at certin speeds. Not consantly no matter how fast you go after you get past 25MPH. that and if it was out of ballence tires it wouldn't matter how fast you got up to speed it would still vibrate the same. A shifted belt would do that but the tire shop should have found that. But all that was disproven when he swaped wheels and tires.