# Why is My Steering Wheel Shaking So Badly?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-steering-wheel-shaking-so-badly/64302>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 4, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-steering-wheel-shaking-so-badly/64302 "2001-05-04T03:14:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-steering-wheel-shaking-so-badly/64302/21 "2001-05-12T01:13:44Z")

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Well, I’m still a bit dubious – how old were the tires?  
The only way I can think of to get four tires out of round would be to do a serious, tread laying panic stop (which might have happened after just before said accident). But I think that would show up well before 75 mph.

My theory is that Mechanic 1 did a static balance instead of a dynamic balance on the tires. It’s hard to know if Mechanic 2 took you for a ride or not without actually knowing the condition of the tires that were replaced. But if they were older than 3 or 4 years, it’s just as well that they were replaced.

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**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-steering-wheel-shaking-so-badly/64302/22 "2001-05-12T01:59:35Z")

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This thread was started last Thursday. Are you still alive? Nearly every poster has told you to take your rattletrap to a real mechanic. Have you done that? If not, do it!

If you’d rather, however, you may regard your problem as a message from God that your days are numbered. I can only hope that when your cosmic number comes up in the power ball game of life, you quietly hurtle into a bridge embunkment, and that you do not go careening across the median strip and take me out.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-steering-wheel-shaking-so-badly/64302/23 "2001-05-12T17:41:55Z")

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My grampy would have been proud that I was able to make a logical guess that your problem was tire related. He worked at GM for longer than I’ve been alive. I hope you got new tires!

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