I have noticed that my steering wheel shakes or vibrates more than normal. Its not a lot of shaking but its definitely noticeable and very annoying. It shakes most often at speeds below 50 mph but anything above that it seems fine. I just had my alignment done about a month ago at Honda. What could be the issue and how can I fix this? TIA.

 

rotors may be warped

 

tires might be off balance

 

could be a bad axle, could be a bad tie rod, could be a few things. try jacking up your car on both sides and seeing if the tire wil move side to side. that could mean your tie rod is broken. jack up both sides, start up the car and put it in gear and see if the wheels aren't moving smoothly, that could mean your axle is messed up.

 

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Would I feel this when just driving? I thought if I were braking than it could be the rotors.

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Thanks. I'll give it a try this weekend. Hopefully its nothing major because I'm fuggin broke. Any more possible issues?

 

needs an alignment. or if it only happens when your braking probably warped rotors

 

shaking during acceleration - bad cv joint (axles)
shaking during braking - warped rotor(s)
shaking all the time - loose lug nuts
- tires unbalanced
most common, easier checks

 

are your rims bent at all? my dad's car was doing it because of that.

 

Low speed vibrations happens ALLOT with seperated tires. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say your car is lowered( ) and when a car is cambered it tends to start seperating on the inside shoulder that you don't see. Take it to a tire shop and have them <U>road force</U> balance the front tires. Not all tire shops have this kind of balancer, they are very expensive. We have one at my work, and I could tell you EXACTLY whats going on with your car....this balancer takes all the guess work out of everything. But like the guy said above, vibration under acceleration is more than likely the axels, pulsating under braking is warped rotors, vibration from 50 + is an out of balance tire. You won't feel a tire being out of balance below 40-50 mph. Definetly check for the seperation man

 

Cool, thanks for the input guys. Will do.

 

Well, I finally got my new tires on and it seemed to fix the problem. I think the problem was seperated tires like someone stated above. I'm glad I didn't have to pay for axles or anything like that. Time to take some corners with my new yokos. Thanks for all the input.

 

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Go back to Honda and tell them they did it and they have to fix it.
It could be rotors, but Honda aligned it and didn't check the brakes? Bad honda. They should know better. When I get alignments at Wheelworks, they check all the steering and suspension parts and tell me which part is about to give.