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 Post subject: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:27 am 
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The other day, I was stuck in very slow traffic on a motorway - slow but not stopped. It was a hot day (for England) and the temp gauge moved about 2 marks over the half mark, so heater on and window open.

As we moved forward, the steering wheel started to shake noticeably. Once we could get moving properly, this disappeared. Does anyone have any ideas why and what I need to do to stop it happening again?

All ideas gratefully received.

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 11:59 am 
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Rapid or slow shake? Speed before vs after? Can you duplicate?

Could be as simple as road surface causing slight front wheel twitch resulting in steering wheel twitch otherwise could be any of a variety of front end issues

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:30 pm 
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Speed before - slow, about 10mph, while the temp gauge was over the half mark. Shake very noticeable and fairly quick. After it cooled, (even driving slow), not a twitch. And no, I haven't been able to replicate it.

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 1:29 pm 
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Odd I have no clue Probably can be ignored unless it happens again but do check out lug nuts for tightness

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:46 pm 
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Thanks Jim

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 4:53 pm 
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bad tires.?


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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 5:22 pm 
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Nope. Tyres are nearly new, balanced and correctly pressured - but thanks for the suggestion.

Hopefully it was the road surface - not noticeable at speed (I've driven over this stretch god knows how often) but an issue at slow speeds. Its odd how it coincided with the engine temp rising though.

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 4:53 am 
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Power steering fluid getting too hot maybe? Is the fluid low? Either could possibly cause a shake.

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:13 am 
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Funny you should say that Jiesel, its gone in today for a full flush/replace of the ps fluid. I was looking back over my service records over the weekend, and couldn't see that the fluid had ever been changed - the level had been checked, but the fluid hadn't been replaced.

Thanks for the idea though, I hadn't thought of that as a possible cause.

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:51 pm 
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try greasing your caliper pins. This happened to me and I found them corroded. After greasing them the wobble went away...

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 Post subject: Re: Steering wheel shake
PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:36 am 
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Thanks - I'll try that as well.

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