08Coupe6/6

Hi All,

I have a 2008 Honda Accord, EX-L V6 6 Speed manual with 71k. I love it, its a great car. I am mechanically inclined and perform 90% of my car maintenance myself (CV's, brakes, trannys, clutches etc)

About 6 months ago I started to hear a "womp womp womp" noise coming from the front of the car and suspected a bearing issue. I pulled the front wheels and found major toe wear on the inside.

My OEM wheels were 18's but scratched up and I decided to buy a new set of 4 wheels and tires from TireRack. They were mounted and balanced by TireRack in a Hunter Road Force machine. These arrived and seemed to resolve the "womp womp" noise.

About a week after I installed these I stopped by a local NTB and got an alignment, so these tires wouldn't wear the same way. A day or two after this I noticed a wobble/vibration in the steering wheel at 60mph+, and it's extremely noticeable. The vibration feels like its coming from the front and can be felt in the seats, floor and even drinks in my cup holder jump around. If any of you have ever had 'death wobble' before it's similar to the onset of this, but not nearly as bad as full on death wobble.

I took the car back to the alignment shop and TireRack offered to pay for the wheels to be rebalanced here. They did this, but it did not make any difference. One of the techs claimed I had a tire out of round, and told TireRack (they were in communication). TireRack then mailed me two new tires and paid for NTB to mount and balance these, but it made no difference.

TireRack then shipped me two new wheels, with two new Hunter Road Force mounted and balanced tires on them. Unfortunately the problem is still there, and TireRack has done plenty at this point.

I just ordered OEM Honda hubs, bearings, left and right inner and outer tie rods and lower ball joints. If i'm going to tear it all down I'm only doing it once.

What do you guys think it is??

poorman212

No upper ball joints/control arms

8thV6-6

I dealt with this some time ago, the CV joint on my passenger side axle was toast. The car was noisy at all speeds but particularly bad under hard acceleration. I replaced the axle and all is good.

08Coupe6/6

OK All, everything has gone wrong haha.

Yesterday I replaced both front hubs and wheel bearings, tie rods inner and outer and ball joints. It has improved my handling but the wobble is still there.

I also damaged the ABS sensor in the right wheel (or the encoder ring is damaged on the hub, the orientation is correct) and now have to fix this too. I have ordered a sensor, and if this doesn't work I will have to order another hub.

Regardless, the wobble is still present. Any ideas? My buddy who worked with me suggested rotors, but it doesn't wobble when braking, only driving and they're only 6 months old!

I am going to the Honda dealer on Wed to have a four wheel alignment and i'm going to have all four tires dismounted, remounted and balanced again on another Hunter road force machine. This is driving me crazy!

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08Coupe6/6

Hi All,

Last night after posting I replaced my front rotors and rotated the tires (front to back, as they're directional).

It made ZERO difference, shake is still in the front end and steering wheel.

Anyone have ideas? I am thinking maybe axles as suggested by 8thV6-6

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Also I am doubting balancing because you can usually get past that point. I drove up to 100mph yesterday and the shaking gets progressively worse the faster you go with no relief.

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fotoforce

Did you ever get this figured out? I'm having a similar problem. Replaced a wheel bearing, rotated and balanced tires twice, and still have wobble starting at about 35MPH. I also broke my ABS sensor and now have ABS and TCS warning lights on.

amdrvt