Help Please!!!!

Don't know if anyone has had this issue before, but as soon as I hit 100 Km/h my car starts shaking very bad... It gets worst as I drive faster, and the shaking gets so bad the pasenger seat can actually be seen and heard shaking. I thought I had ice a snow stuck under my car so I put the car in the garage over night to let it thaw out, but didn't help at all, and infact is worst now!!!! Any ideas????????????/
 
Yeah, just get you tires balanced, fast. I used to get the shakes around 70mph and above, although not as bad as your shake seems, but now it's fine after I got them all balanced.

I had snow stuck in my wheels and rotors and could feel a shake at 20mph and up, so it's probably not that.
 
Did you hit a nasty pothole or a curb recently? or did you let snow sit on your car for a long time and you hadn't moved the car in a while?

Yep take it to the dealer. Balance the tires. If you then still have the shakes, try rotating the tires one side at a time to find out which one(s) it is. Could be a deformed tire (needs replacement) or a bent wheel.

Anyway, have it looked at immediately before you damage your suspension. Save yourself $$$$ later on.
 
Wheels aren't damaged, no pot holes hit as far as I know. I'm still thinking it may be snow. I'll have to leave it in the garage again tonight to be sure. It's just I can't take the car any faster than 80Km/h and it's bugging the crap out of me!!!!!!!!
 
hawkwind101 said:
Check for ice and snow in the wheel. That's probably all it is especially after the amount of snow we had.

I second that suggestion. Snow gets there and stays there as long as it is cold. I always carry a stick in the car, in case...

If it is that bad, remove each wheel and clean the white sh.t outta there. Don't you just love winters :mad: ?
 
Well if it is snow, I can't see it!!! I got into my car put my wheel all the way to the right and then checked... Nothing..... Then put them left... again nothing.... Where exactly should I be looking. Wheel wells are bone dry???
 
You looked in the right place...must be a mechanical problem then. Or, as stupid as it may sound, if you have water in the tires, that could be it...
 
You could always try pouring hot water over your rims just in case there is some ice somewhere you can't see. After that if it doesn't fix your problem goto the dealer.
 
Does it pull off to one side when you are driving?

I'm gonna side with tire-rebalancing/wheel issue. I cranked a curb in one of my old cars and it bent the wheel ever so slightly. Anything over 60km/h would shake the steering wheel like crazy. After the bent wheel was repaired, no more shaking.
 
I've even had mud on the inside of the rim cause this before. If it dries on one section then it will do it. Been through any mud lately?
 
If you live up where it's cold, water/ice inside the tire is a possibility though I never thought of it before - if you put air in when it's hot, there's more water in the air. When it gets cold, you naturally would add more air to your tires, i.e., adding more water. In the cold the water would condense and possibly freeze into a lump.

With this condition, if you drive long enough I think the tires would warm up enough to melt the ice that's inside so the vibration would disappear - the water would spread out over the inside surface of the tire evenly so no unbalanced loading would occur (I'm theorizing here - ever do any spincoating in a lab?). Once you stop and park the car the water will refreeze into a lump in the cold.

One quick and easy way to test this would be to bring your tire into your home (should melt any ice inside the tire) and see if you can hear any sloshing. Of course you will have to identify which tire is causing the vibration.

What does everyone think?

Otherwise rebalance the tire/wheel. If the rim is bent you might be able to see it wiggling on the machine while it spins. If the wheel is bent, ouch. But get it repaired/fixed immediately before you damage your suspension and bearings...

TireRack has a good chart on diagnosing wheel/tire vibrations, you should check it out...

http://www.tirerack.com/images/tires/vibechart.pdf
 
Water can come from the compressor when inflating the tire (compressor not purged) also.
 
Fix-A-Flat....that stuff in the can......I used it on my honda and had the shakes till i replaced the tire.....have you used it in any of your tires? that could be it bro.
 
ARe you sure you didn't break a belt on your tire either? I broke a belt one time and it would shake like crazy when i got over 45 mph so that's like your 80 km almost isn't it? Just jack the car up and spin the wheels. You'll see a place where it's deformed if a belts broken.
 
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