Hi Im new........... I was told I could get good info here to help with my CRXs problem.

It shakes almost violently every 2 seconds when Im going from 50-65 mph and when I brake. I balanced the wheels and inspected the bottom. Everything looks good, besides a loose rubber weight on the drivers side drive shaft(wich I taped back to its original position).

A friend says the boots need to be changed again, but they dont really click around the corners or anything.

Do you think you know what it could be?

Shawn
zeekilla@aol.com

 

could be ur axles still. i know my inner joint is worn out cuz the boot was torn for awhile and the grease got out and caused a shimmy at the same speeds. try checking ball joints and tie rod ends to.

 

I had the exact same problem and I was told by a honda technician to first check the upper and lower ball joints (check Helms manual for how to), and if that wasn't the problem then its probably the CV joints. On my car I ended up just replacing the axles and it fixed the problem

 

Mine had the same problem. I tried all the suspension parts, inspected everything. Still wiggled.

I just got a wheel balance and it solved the problem completely.

EDIT: didn't see u already did that, sorry.

 

well with the braking it is usually warped disc. but since its doing it while your moving idk then

 

could a warped disk cause vibrations wile driving? my stearing wheel shacks at some speeds and vibrates when i brake

 

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Yes, my saturns caliper actually froze up on me, causing it to grab the warped rotor as it went around, and shook the car at high speeds....quite similar to your description. Also, it had a broken belt on that same tire, so that kinda helped with the vibe too.

 

I had bad tires.
Bought cheap ones.

they were self destructing

vibration was exactly at the same speed

put new tire on and smoothness

have shop check tires and rebalance them

wheels could be out of round

both of these can be the case and not show with the closest of visual inspections

I orig thought it was warped rotors, then alignment, but it was tires and wheels, I now have a full size spare with the best of the old fron wheels.
After changing flats from tires that sudenly identified themselves as bad.
One even had the entire tread separate in one piece(as a ring), it was of course a Firestone that came with the car when I bought it.

 

ill tell you exactly what it is, i know for a fact it is your UV...wait CV joint, it happened twice to me, and fix it asap

 

wheel could be off balance or might have bad tire thats what was bad on mine.

 

AHA

I missed the boot issue the 1st read.
You will need new axels.
Dont replace the boot, that wont buy you enough time to be worth it.
Replace the axel. Trust me replacing the boot is just as much hassle especially since you will still be replacing the axel(s) soon


If they aren't clicking yet you have time to save money for the axels.
It is a pretty ez job.

PS
your wheels may have issues but with the torn boot, we KNOW you have cv axel issues.

 

its the cv's they are like 110 bucks to replace with new ones through autozone, do it, im 100% sure thats ur problem, all honda's have shitty cv's its almost a proven science