Ok Wtf My Car Shakes

Subscribe
Dec 7, 2003 | 08:57 PM
  #1  
AS YOU KNOW WE GOT SOME HEAVY SNOW THIS SATURDAY AND FRIDAY...
MY CAR WAS FINE ON FRIDAY, DIDN'T EVEN START IT ON SATURDAY
AND TODAY WHILE I WAS GOING TO WORK, JUST AS I HIT 55- 60 MY CAR STARTS TO SHAKE LIKE CRAZY.....

anyone know what this means? is my wheel alignment messed up from snow?
i don't know why but when i'm in park, or go below 50 i don't feel anything but i feel that shaking from 55 + .....Please help me out
Reply
Dec 7, 2003 | 09:01 PM
  #2  
Balance your tires
Reply
Dec 7, 2003 | 09:03 PM
  #3  
It could be the same thing that happened to me today as well. Im in NJ and have a lowered 99 max with 18's. What i noticed was that the snow got stuck between the wheel and the wheel well and im guessing at speeds above 50 or 60, it starts to touch the wheel or affect the wheel somehow and causes it to shake and shimmy. After i cleaned my wheel well, the shaking went away. To keep this from happenining, just keep the wheel well from collecting snow. I hope this helps you out.....
Reply
Dec 7, 2003 | 09:03 PM
  #4  
um....my tire was fine.........you think my tires got unbalanced after driving in the snow?
Reply
Dec 7, 2003 | 09:07 PM
  #5  
Quote: It could be the same thing that happened to me today as well. Im in NJ and have a lowered 99 max with 18's. What i noticed was that the snow got stuck between the wheel and the wheel well and im guessing at speeds above 50 or 60, it starts to touch the wheel or affect the wheel somehow and causes it to shake and shimmy. After i cleaned my wheel well, the shaking went away. To keep this from happenining, just keep the wheel well from collecting snow. I hope this helps you out.....
hey where are the wheel well? it's not the space between the tires and the splash guards is it?
Reply
Dec 7, 2003 | 09:07 PM
  #6  
Check your wheel well, i doubt that your wheels are unbalanced......
Reply
Dec 7, 2003 | 09:08 PM
  #7  
It is the spacing between the wheel and the splash guards and everything inside of it
Reply
Dec 8, 2003 | 01:45 AM
  #8  
We had this problem in my friends crx during the winter. We use to run through snow drifts that cover the car and plow through fresh snow at night. I think its just snow and ice stuck on/inside the rim. Try a car wash. Nick
Reply
Dec 8, 2003 | 12:06 PM
  #9  
Your tires are not out of balance, get a car wash and make sure you get the wheel wells very good!
Reply
Dec 8, 2003 | 12:33 PM
  #10  
This is extremely doubtful, but, why not: Your lug nuts for your tires are tight right? I mean real tight! My buddy had this and so his wheel fell off, lol, lucky nobody was hurt. I'll bet its the snow in your wheel well though
Reply
Dec 9, 2003 | 10:02 AM
  #11  
Quote: We had this problem in my friends crx during the winter. We use to run through snow drifts that cover the car and plow through fresh snow at night. I think its just snow and ice stuck on/inside the rim. Try a car wash. Nick
he's right! ice stuck on your rim is just like adding extra little wheel weights for balancing. snow/ice does it. mud does it too.
Reply
Dec 9, 2003 | 10:07 AM
  #12  
I've had the same thing
I grew up in Michigan and we get *** piles of snow.

When you drive in deep snow it gets lodged inside the rim and unbalances the weight. But you don't notice it at slow speeds. So just hose it out or just driving on it for a while will get the wheels hot enough to melt it out of there.
Reply
Subscribe