I have a 2000 Civic hatch and my steering wheel shakes like a ******* ***** the faster I go and it's really pissing me off. I replaced the brakes, rotors, and tires three days ago, and the axles like a month ago, and it's still doing the same bullshit. The last and only reason I can think of why my ****'s still shaking is the wheel bearing.. How do I change this thing and what's the average price from a stealership?

 

what I would recommend is to jack the car up and spin the wheel and wiggle it to see if it has play. if the bearings are bad normally it will sound like rice krispies when it spins or it will have some play.

to replace them you need to press the hub out of the carrier and repack the new bearing with grease, then press the hub into the carrier with new bearing. not that hard, unless you dont have access to a press.

I would feel safe to guess around 200 and up for a shop to do it.

 

hubcentric rings may be your key. Do you have aftermarket rims?

Mine shakes like a ***** too. Its the Honda shake and it sucks. However....after 95mph it stops but I get scared thinking my wheels are going to fall off so I slow back down into the shake zone. I think I need hub centric rings.

 

I can think of a couple more reasons... what kind of rubber did you put on the front 3 days ago? Sometimes, cheap tires won't center/seat properly on the rim and cause the tire to wobble (I used to balance tires, I've seen it many times).

One more thing I can think of is if you've lowered your car. I heard sometimes if you lower a car, the cv shafts constantly sit on a different angle than they're designed to causing vibration on acceleration. My Saturn did that after I lowered it... it annoyed the hell out of me too because I couldn't do anything about it.

 

an alignment may help a little?

 

my car does the same thing too even after i replaced the axles. A friend of mine told me to replace the wheel bearings so that's what imma do next. Hope that's the problem.

 

I have 99-00 Si rims, stock Si suspension up front to hold up the engine, and stock dx in the rear. The shaking was before the rims, before the tires, before the new brakes/rotors, and before the axles. I'm at a loss..

 

Have you physically gone under your car to see if anything is binding, loose, cracked, warped, etc?

 

sounds like a bad wheel bearing. does it make noises going down the road?

 

there was a diy on here a while ago explaining how to change a wheel bearing but i think it was for the rear. ill look for it

 

Changing your wheel bearing yourself is a real pain in the ***...I know this from experience. I wanted the experience so I did them on my moms car...if you don't have all the resources the dealership has as far as tools go then I would suggest taking them down to the dealrship to have them replaced. I got a quote for $80 a piece for labor.

The biggest pain was when the half of the center sleeve gor stuck on the hub and I had to grind it off with a dremel (that is the best investment). The second problem you will run into is the lower ball joint...it tends to get stuck...On one side of the vehicle I had to remove the entire lower control arm still attached because the lower ball joint wouldn't budge.

If you are intrested in doing the job yourself for experience, then do it...if you are trying to save money then get it done at the dealership. The time and effort to replace them isn't worth it.

 

I'm at a loss... Have you tried putting the front end up in the air on jackstands and have someone drive 50? You can look and see if anything obvious is physically shaking...

 

Nope. Even if I had jackstands I'd probably be a little etchy on doing that anyways . One thing I do know is I don't have a vibration dampener on my driver's side half shaft, but I do on the passenger side. I've been told I need one, and been told they don't really do much.. I went out to buy a generic one that screws on to my axle but the local parts store doesn't carry anything like that .

 

If it didn't come with one from factory, it DOES NOT need one.

If you want to do it yourself, I'd say remove both hubs/knuckles and take it to a shop to press out/press in the bearings and re-install everything.

 

bent rim may cause the same problem. does your steering always shake at all speeds? or just high speeds?

 

Just high speeds, the rim is fine.. I've rotated all of them and the front driver's side was always the problem.

 

Putting the front wheels in the air and having someone drive at the speed that it starts to shake is a really good, and easy method to determine your problem. They did it at the shop that I used to work at all the time. I determined I had poor quality tires with this method a few weeks ago, replaced my tires, and now no more shake.

This way works... just make sure you take all safety precautions, i.e. block wheels, parking brake, safety jack stands in the proper position under the car. You don't even have to get under the car if you don't feel safe. Watch the wheels spin.