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My car shakes at 80+ mph.... I'm thinking it's an imperperly balanced tire, but at anything above 80?? It has 4 new winter tires on it that dont seem to be wearing unevenly... I put roughly 300 miles on my car a day (I'm a mobile computer tech) and have just recently noticed this problem on highway cruising... The faster I go the more it shakes, what I've experianced with improperly balanced tires is a shaking around 40-50 and then it dosnt shake above that.... mabye I have a slightly bent driveaxle?

 

IDK It just annoys me when I'm crusin' down the highway at like 95 :(

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You haven't put Stop Leak in any of the tires, have you? Regardless, getting the tires balanced would be the best place to start. Also check the rim(s) for any noticeable damage. It's possible one of the rims could be bent ever-so-slightly (enough to slip by a tire tech) and is causing an out-of-balance condition...

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When I had my "summer" tires on (stock size on my stock crosslace) I had shaking above 70+mph and it got much worse the faster I went. Also it was pulling a bit to the left.

 

I put on my "winter" wheels (205/70/15s) and the problem has seemed to go away. The tires are a bit smaller, but I have taken it up to 90mph (on the cluster, probably slower in real life due to tire size) to make sure. Those tires suck for high speeds though, feel like I'm going all over the place. :?

 

In the spring I'm just gonna toss the old "summer" tires (all seasons) and buy 4 brand new SUMMER rubber so that I'm good for a long time.

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I have seen many bent metal rims (every other one, no joke) and just a few bent alloy rims (1 in 10 maybe) Try jacking up each of your tires and spin them and watch for an out of round rim both on the outside edge, and on the inside edge... Many have bent barrels and which would only be evident by watching the inside rim edge as it is rotated (one of the many pleasures of FWD)

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I have seen many bent metal rims (every other one, no joke) and just a few bent alloy rims (1 in 10 maybe) Try jacking up each of your tires and spin them and watch for an out of round rim both on the outside edge, and on the inside edge... Many have bent barrels and which would only be evident by watching the inside rim edge as it is rotated (one of the many pleasures of FWD)

can't spin the fronts that easily!

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  • 1 month later...

I thought You'd be throwing it in gear on a lift, actually!!! LOL I had a friend control the throttle and put the car in park from 60 miles an hour with the car raised on my old buick when it's tranny died. It wouldn't go with the wheels on the ground.

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it was probably valvebody failure or clutch failure..... about 4 months (like 300 miles) earlier I burnt the fluid with when the filter clogged and it suffered hydraulic stall. It was a rust gutted 75 Buick Electra...

 

It wouldn't go one day, so after a fiulter and fluid change, I raised both wheels off the ground on jackstand and observed that it worked when raised, and once I decided that there was nothing else I could do, I said "go ahead and shut it off, and she put it in park, before hitting the brakes or shutting off the engine. I got used to stopping cars in gear to prevent dieseling. this one did it for maybe a second.... my next car actually would diesel for a whole minute, btw.... We're so off topic :lol:

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