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Old Oct 2, 2005 | 06:09 PM
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Default Steering wheel shaking on braking but its not the discs HELP

Hello as above its starting to piss me off, only does it a little bit on light braking. i have changed the all the brakes but its still the same. Is there any thing else it could be

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Old Oct 2, 2005 | 08:06 PM
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Hi mate,
if you are sure the brakes are all fine and you have this vibration coming from the front of the car, then you ought to be looking at the front track control arm bushes or bottom ball joints. If these ok then check track rod ends for wear.

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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 10:32 AM
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Mine tured out to be knackered wheel bearings, pissed me off buying new disks then finding out it was no better
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 10:34 AM
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My 4x4 did that and it was the front wheels needed balanced.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 10:39 AM
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have you checked the hubs as they warp,bet it does it around 50mph my one does it havnt got round to do it yet had new discs and pads and bushes found out the hub had some run out.
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Old Oct 3, 2005 | 11:15 PM
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i got the same problem mate just going to poly bush the front end.
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Old Oct 5, 2005 | 11:51 PM
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I reckon it might be the bottom arms bushes. mine were fooked quite somet ime ago and had the problem. Changed the bottom arms and bushes and the problem dissapeared.
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Old Oct 6, 2005 | 12:13 AM
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i had this problem and it was just wheel balancing.

try the cheapest options first cos it could be any of the ones mentioned
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Old Oct 7, 2005 | 09:37 PM
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My 3dr was doing exactly the same I poly bushed the front end and it solved the problem
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