...for me, anyway.

Made a post about a week and a half ago that my steering wheel/column vibrated a lot occassionally when driving 75mph and above. A few other people (bunch of other people, actually) posted that they were having the same problem. Two things (one embarassingly simple) seemed to lessen and then solve the problem.

First of all, when I was cleaning my car three days ago I found a pretty large rock wedged into the treads on the front passenger side tire. I pulled it out and checked over the other tires and found another (!!) big rock wedged into the driver side one. Both of these were really big and wedged in tight as hell (I had a tough time getting both out and I was worried they might've damaged the tires). I guess that's the price I pay for having to drive down a couple of rough dirt roads. Took a drive on the highway after that and the vibration was a LOT less than it was before. Barely noticeable, as a matter of fact unless I pushed up past 90mph.

There was a still a bit of vibration, so I called the dealership up and asked if they could balance the front tires. I took the car down earlier today (all free, of course, gotta love warranties) and now it's PERFECT. The car feels rock solid all the way up to 100mph with pretty much no cabin, pedal, or steering column vibration.

Thanks to everyone who suggested having the tires balanced.

 

Welcome.

 

Rocks huh? Ill check in the morning but I doubt I missed them since I wash the POS every week. My vibration has worsened, and my hand now shakes even when Im not driving .

 

I missed 'em the first time I cleaned the car, so... (assuming they were there the first time, which they probably were).

Anyway, like I said - the rocks didn't totally solve the problem. But I think they might have been what made the steering column vibration as bad as it was. Pulling them out just made the car (and steering wheel) feel a lot more steady at high speed. I know what you mean, though, the vibration WAS bad. Normally things like vibration don't bother me, but when people driving next to you can see your hand bouncing all over the place...

Oh, well. I'm glad I figured out what was causing my particular problem.

 

my problem was a screwed up axle.......i havent put it up to the test yet.......before i used to get vibrations at 50-70mph

 

Try hitting a curb, now I have a vibration, car pulls to the right like no other, and there is a knocking/clicking noise from the front...goes in to nissan on monday to see what the prob is since 3 shops cant figure it out...

 

LMAO but had to say, that can be taken several ways. Too funny.

 

I think that we all agree that hitting curb = a f***ed up car. Anyway, good luck finding out what the problem is and getting it fixed.

 

I always check my treads for rocks. Now that my tires are low on tread, it runs the road much smoother.

 

Makes sense, but I'm still kind of surprised a rock in there would cause steering column vibration. That had to be it, though, because the difference was so noticeable after I got the rocks out.

 

Ya were gettin our rocks off here

 

I'm sure that the rock had something to do with your wheel problems, but I found our recently that the shimmy that you guys feel at 70-85 is your struts being worn. I always thought that my suspension was in good shape, I would do the bounce test on the corner and it responded approporiately. Then when I removed my struts, I could compress them with our the spring by hand (which you should be able to do unless your a power lifter. Then when I set them down, they did fully rebound for about 3-4 minutes. This is on a car that has 68k miles and has been driven pretty cautiously for bumps and potholes.

 

Hmm... I hadn't considered that. Since I know the previous owner of this car (and know for a fact that it was babied) I didn't think that the suspension might be the problem. The rock removal and balancing seems to have completely cured the problem, but if it shows up again I might have the dealership check out the struts (I'm under a 100% warranty, might as well use it ).

That might definetly explain the wheel vibration problems other people have been having that just won't go away, though...