PainlessCandy
Well-Known Member
Hey guys, so I've got a nice conundrum on my hands. My car has been at the dealer since Friday. Prior to that I had been experiencing a strange oscillating vibration coming from the front passenger corner. The vibration would come and go almost at random and could be felt through the entire car including in the steering wheel, in the floorboard, in the brake pedal while braking, and when accelerating it feels like something is fighting the engine - if I didn't know better I would think it was a caliper locking up, but that is not the case. At first I thought it might be a tire not balanced or a wheel bearing going bad. So I waited til I swapped my snow tires on in order to rule that out. Omw home from the tire shop (last Thursday) I felt it again, so that rules out wheels causing it.
The time if felt worst was Wednesday night when I came home from work. It was about 40°F and I still had my summer tires on, and as i approached my exit on the highway it started vibrating, but it kept getting worse until I came to a stop, and at it's worst it felt like my wheel was going to come off - it very much reminded me of when I was young and put the spare on my parents mini van and failed to tighten the lugs all the way and got a quarter mile down the road and thought the car was going to shake itself apart.
Since Friday, the technician has gone over my brakes making sure the rotors are true and have no corrosion causing an imbalance, the wheel bearing, tested the wheels and tires to be within spec of being true (one is ever so slightly bent, but it was the passenger rear wheel and still balanced on the machine), and pulled the CV axle and found no evidence of play or wear in it.
At this point, I am not sure what to do or what to look at next. Any input, hypothetical or personal experience, is welcome.
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The time if felt worst was Wednesday night when I came home from work. It was about 40°F and I still had my summer tires on, and as i approached my exit on the highway it started vibrating, but it kept getting worse until I came to a stop, and at it's worst it felt like my wheel was going to come off - it very much reminded me of when I was young and put the spare on my parents mini van and failed to tighten the lugs all the way and got a quarter mile down the road and thought the car was going to shake itself apart.
Since Friday, the technician has gone over my brakes making sure the rotors are true and have no corrosion causing an imbalance, the wheel bearing, tested the wheels and tires to be within spec of being true (one is ever so slightly bent, but it was the passenger rear wheel and still balanced on the machine), and pulled the CV axle and found no evidence of play or wear in it.
At this point, I am not sure what to do or what to look at next. Any input, hypothetical or personal experience, is welcome.
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