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The car steering shakes at any speed, vibrates too, had balance done alot, new tires but before this started I had a caliper stuck and ever since that the front end of the car been acting up.... took the car to different garages and nothing but also the struts are loose, which is that how the optra made, nobody knows.
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Sounds like a bent wheel or a tire out of balance - one of the front tires/wheels. The shaking happens when you get to a speed that causes a sympathetic vibration in the suspension or steering joints. If there doesn't seem to be any vibration or back and forth movement of the steering wheel at slower speeds, I'd lean toward the tire being out of balance.
The first thing to have check are the tires, the from tires since the steering is vibrating. Also take your car to have all of the tire balance, if they are out of balance it will vibrate at higher speed. Thos two are the most common issue for a vibrating steering wheel.
great danger there. dont go fast.
can be tires out of balance (tire weighs feel off)
or wheel falling off (ever check the lugs)
tire bad. (bulged, delaminations , man killer tires, like Firestones)
tire rods balls, ready to fall off (more man killers)
ball joint ,ready to fail. and far far worse...
why not get the car serviced, have them check it out before.... bad happens.
noise and vibration or shaking on any machine means , doom is coming. in most cases,.
OK, when the ABS module is unplugged, the same results. That tells me that the ABS system is not working properly.
Did they look into the master cylinder and other abs related components?
Any ABS codes on it?
If steering wheel shakes above 50 mph that's likely to be the tires on it, rather than a brake problem.
Have tires balanced and rotated and inspected for out of roundness that might cause vibration above 50 mph.
Vibration or a "shimmey" is an indication that the tires need to be balanced. This is not related to the wheel alignment you had done A poorly balanced tire will vibrate on its own, transferring the vibration all the way through the steering wheel. Have the tires balanced. If this doesn't fixy your issue, then the problem lies between the rotors (could have a warped rotor) and the rack and pinion. Best of luck on your problem. Greg
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