thecritik

iTrader: (2)

I just had my wheels re-balanced a week ago and the vibration is back. This is some BS and Nissan better get their act together.

MAXIM0

I have a non matching tire on it when i bought the car. I dont think the people who put the tire on had it balanced properly. I starts shaking alittle ay 65+ and gets noticable at 80mph

wiggs500

I had a bit of a shimmy, but it went away when I replaced my RSA's with Michelin Pilot Sport A/S.

RaiderNick

I know this thread is about shimmy on '04s, but I have an '06 SE stock 18s with RSA's and I have a very light shimmy between 40-60. I have had the tires reblananced, but not difference at all. Any suggestions?

MaximusX

Check warping of rotors?

Check tire pressure? tire wear?

There are a couple other causes to the shimmy - read the 3 pages here and do a search for it. I'm sure other threads will come up.

thecritik

iTrader: (2)

Ok ... So my car was up on a lift having my brakes checked and I look and say hmmm let me remove this lip thing. So I remove the entire plastic piece and voila 90% of the vibration is gone. What a POS. I'm going to cut the lip off with a dremel and put the plastic piece back as not to destroy whatever it's protecting.

alterdmax04

I had the shimmy also, Brakes warped in 7000 miles went with the stillen brake kit on all 4 corners and went with Continental Extreme Contact no more shimmy and that was 96,000 miles ago and 2 more sets of tires, and another set of brake pads.

ademacrazy

replaced the rotors on the 04 and that took car of the shimmy

ROYFZ1

Ya I went to get new tires to try and get rid or the shimmy and they said I had a couple of bent rims too. I know that ive never done anthing that could bend a rim that bad. I think that is part of the simmy in the stearing wheel im also going to try new rims how to the 20's fit and what profile tire did you use?
thanks royfz1

Sarara

Year: 2004
Miles: 60k ++

I never had shimmy in my car, not at all what-so-ever.
Recently I have done my brake service, changed rotors and pads.
But I had little squeaking noise with new rotors and pads so I took my all wheels apart several times to clean pads and rotors. But after that I found shimmy in my car between 60 and 70 miles per hour. I wasn't sure about the shimmy is because of new rotors/pads or what? I was like putting tires back should not do this. I was like what the heck, a little difference in torque should not be a problem because people change their tires all the time anyway.

So I went for an oil change service, at the same time I requested for all tire rotaions. Damn...my shimmy gone forever after tire rotations.

What I have learned is not having proper torque on lug nuts caused shimmy in my car. When I went to the shop for tire rotation, they torqued my lug nuts according to specification (I can say this because on bill/paper-work, they mentioned about lug nuts torque figures/numbers)

So I had shimmy for a few hundreds miles just because I never torqued my lug nuts properly but shimmy gone after I went to shop for tire rotation with proper torque on all lug nuts.

Different car produce shimmy with different reason, lucky mine was very normal reason and easy fix.

I heard people saying living in region with heavy snow covered on rims cause shimmy.
I have my car in three heay snow seasons parked in open space parking lot but never caused any shimmy problem.

Excuse me for my english or grammar.

Thanks

philoforlife

So, if they made the steering wheel bushings larger in the 05s to control the shimmy, is there a way to have them replaced in the 04? How difficult is this to do?

Joshua

jerrycan

Ours did at first, but it seems to have gone away