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My steering wheel vibrates at 65-70 mph. At first I had installed new 17" 5zigen aluminum wheels and Continental tires. Steering wheel was fine while driving high way speeds back to NYC for my 2nd installment. 2nd installment was brake pads, front rotors and pads, front brakeline, rear sway bar, front strut bar , Eibach springs after the installment it vibrates when I drove back home (buffalo, NY). When I got home, my bf bented my wheel on the lip area. I've been thinking for couple of days at first I thought it would be the bented wheel but then, it started vibrating after the 2nd installment. so it couldn't be the wheels. What could be causing the vibration? Also, I had rack and pinion installed last year when I had factory wheels (no vibration).
I asked the mechanic if they did an alignment and he said it's not necessary, so they didn't do it for me. I checked the alignment myself while driving and it seems fine.
Originally posted by 97Camry/blue My steering wheel vibrates at 65-70 mph. At first I had installed new 17" 5zigen aluminum wheels and Continental tires. Steering wheel was fine while driving high way speeds back to NYC for my 2nd installment. 2nd installment was brake pads, front rotors and pads, front brakeline, rear sway bar, front strut bar , Eibach springs after the installment it vibrates when I drove back home (buffalo, NY). When I got home, my bf bented my wheel on the lip area. I've been thinking for couple of days at first I thought it would be the bented wheel but then, it started vibrating after the 2nd installment. so it couldn't be the wheels. What could be causing the vibration? Also, I had rack and pinion installed last year when I had factory wheels (no vibration).
I asked the mechanic if they did an alignment and he said it's not necessary, so they didn't do it for me. I checked the alignment myself while driving and it seems fine.
Any ideas what could have caused the vibration?
Did you get hub rings when you got your wheels installed?
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Originally posted by Oldman tire/rim's probably out of balance, maybe a weight slid or got knocked off, try having your tires rebalanced, its a few bucks a wheel
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How can it be out of balanced? I installed the tires and wheels about a mth before installing rear sway bar, front strut bar, springs, front rotors, front pads, and brakeline. When I had my tires and wheels installed I drove it for a month on highway speeds too and no vibration. I started having vibrations after the 2nd installation (sways, struts, etc). The vibration was before hitting the curb, which resulted in a bent rear rim. So, while driving, all four wheels are fine. The mechanic didn't take the tires out of the rims, so how can they be out of balanced?
What hub rings? What do they look like? Mine don't have hubcaps if that's what you are referring to.
Ok, then that's your problem. You don't have hub rings.
Take off your wheels and check your wheel's hub and there should be a ring around it. It vibrates cuz your wheels are hubcentric and there is space for where it moves.
So, go to your local tire shop and get hub rings. Shouldn't cost you much. Like $5 at most.
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Yukio Taira -1992 4 door Bomex'ed out, Nitrous Express Sport'n, Rippmods SuperCharged Camry
-1992 4 Door EX Honda Civic 5 spd.
-2002 Subaru WRX Wagon... full JDM goodies. My new show car.
Hub rings may be what you need as CamryPunk writes, if your 5Zgens are not hub-centric. These rings center the wheels on the hub if the rim has larger bore than required (60.1 mm I think).
If this is not it, here is a list of potential causes (in an order of the easiest to fix first):
- Your lug nuts are unevenly torqued or even loosened! (e.g. one is say 76 lb/ft, where another is 90 lb/ft). This results in slight twist of the rim, that might be enough to cause vibrations. Retorque everything to spec (76 lb/ft) and check/retorque again after a 50 - 100 miles and then again after another 50-100 miles). You need to check/retorque mandatory on alloy wheels after any wheel removal!
- Your wheels lost a balance wight somehow - may have been knocked-off during or after the second install
- May be the stiffer springs translate more vibration than the OEM soft ones, so you had it before, just did not feel it... Ballance again with stick-on weights if possible.
- Your new rotors are not balanced. Not sure what you can do about it, except rotate them by quarter turn and reinstall them to see if you by chance hit a 'sweet spot'. Or get new rotors.
- Other causes may be bad hubs or out of balance drive shafts...
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Originally posted by 97Camry/blue My steering wheel vibrates at 65-70 mph. At first I had installed new 17" 5zigen aluminum wheels and Continental tires. Steering wheel was fine while driving high way speeds back to NYC for my 2nd installment. 2nd installment was brake pads, front rotors and pads, front brakeline, rear sway bar, front strut bar , Eibach springs after the installment it vibrates when I drove back home (buffalo, NY). When I got home, my bf bented my wheel on the lip area. I've been thinking for couple of days at first I thought it would be the bented wheel but then, it started vibrating after the 2nd installment. so it couldn't be the wheels. What could be causing the vibration? Also, I had rack and pinion installed last year when I had factory wheels (no vibration).
I asked the mechanic if they did an alignment and he said it's not necessary, so they didn't do it for me. I checked the alignment myself while driving and it seems fine.
Ok, then that's your problem. You don't have hub rings.
Take off your wheels and check your wheel's hub and there should be a ring around it. It vibrates cuz your wheels are hubcentric and there is space for where it moves.
So, go to your local tire shop and get hub rings. Shouldn't cost you much. Like $5 at most.
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