Car Shaking Problems

Tire or wheel out of balance or bent?

Axle bent?

Have you used "fix a flat" ? if yes, You have 2-lbs of water inside your tire now. it cost me 70 bucks to find out and this stuff easts chrom weels. Go to alignment shop and tell them to jack up ur car and they use a special machine to turn the back wheels one by one to find out which one is out of ballance ( dont let them take the wheels off and ballance them since they balance tires and speed lower than 50mph and usually stuff happens around 55 to 60mph. for front tires u can just jack up one wheel at a time and put the car in drive and accelerate one wheel is on the ground and the one you jacked up turns and u ask some one to look at the wheel see if it shakes ( it shakes really bad if water inside the tire) do the same of other front wheel. But for back wheels u need that special machine which alignment shops have and all these machines do they turn the wheel up to 130 mph to see if it shakes or not.

My Chevy did that as well. The steering wheel shook like crazy and the dashboard would shake also when the problem became way worse. As I increased speed the problem became terrible especially on the freeway. Turns out my steering knuckles had extreme wear. Had to be replaced everything was fine then. Hopes this helps.

bad front brakes.

Not really. If one of the three cylinders is not functioning, the engine has lost MORE than 1/3 of the power if you take into consideration that the engine is still moving the "dead" piston.

If disk brakes the rotor could be worn and either needs replaced or turned.(put on a lathe to put it back in true again)Other possibilities are worn wheel bearings or worn ball joints. Best to have a shop look at it to determine the actual cause. My car does this when there is a tire out of round.

Quick look: no.

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WHENEVER the check engine light comes on, ALWAYS connect a code scanner to figure out why. The light is on to tell you that the computer has detected a "fault" and it wants to tell you all about it.

Using too low an octane fuel, incorrect timeing, or carbon buildup. Timing isn't adjustable on the 97 so I would say it is carbon buildup and too low octane or cheap quality fuel. I have gotten "93" octane at cheapy places and still had pinging but gotten regular or mid grade at better stations and not had the slightest hint of ping. Also, check to make sure your plugs and wires are in good shape.

The lug nuts weren't tightened.

Normally this is caused by a tire out of balance or a bent wheel.

An alignment problem would not cause a vibration unless the alignment has worn the tires badly, therefore the tires would cause the vibration. If the tires are okay, have the drive axles checked, because a worn drive axle can cause vibration.

The car pulling to the right when the steering wheel is released is most likely an alignment problem, but could also be a "radial tire pull". Normally a rotation will correct that.

An alignment problem will NOT cause your wheels to bend. Normally, only an impact could cause that -- like pot holes, curbs, etc.

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this could be due to oil sludge. this is a common problem for 2003 solara. make sure to change your oil often.

Try replacing the tires! Apparently, Solaras suspension is very sensitive to tires with bad belts, bumps, flat spots, etc. Mine was shaking between 40 and 70 mph--replaced the front tires and it's smooth as silk no

try getting your tires balanced

Does it have a miss? check plugs and wires. Also a possibility of a bad throttle position sensor.

Possibly tire is out of balance and low of air pressure. Can also be the caliber is not fully releasing the brake pads on the right front wheel.

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90% sure your front rotors are warped. Also check to see if your pads are wearing more on one side than the other, this is a sign that you need to replace your calipers aswell.

A shake in the steering wheel or car itself which occurs and/or increases as vehicle speed increases.

if it shakes while your braking your front roters could be warped or if it shakes while your driving try balancing the tires at a tire shop.

Many of the compounds that make your engine oil work better on the INSIDE of the engine are also "poisonous" to your catalytic converter as your engine starts to use oil.

The nice thing about catalytic converters, they burn unused hydrocarbons that come out the exhaust. You may not KNOW that your engine is burning oil until the catalytic converter gives out or even gets plugged up.

Watch the oil level in the crankcase. If it drops with no evidence of leaking, it's burning and your catalytic converter will die.

A Mercedes is no different than other vehicles and vibrations are caused by exactly the same things. They can be caused by anything from an out of balance wheel to a burned valve. It all depends on the type of vibration. Sometimes you just need an experienced mechanic to have a little time with the vehicle so there can be an accurate evaluation.

Sometimes just listening to the vehicle or taking it up to highway speed is enough for an experienced mechanic to tell you what's wrong.

on my 2005 the wheel bearing wnt out and i feel the same rpm vibration, cheak the wear on the tires if its abnormal jack the side up check for tire wobbling

YOUR FRONT ROTORS ARE WARPED. YOU NEED A BRAKE JOB.

Worn bushes or warped brake rotor. Replace faulty item.

it could mean that you have a bent rim, a wheel weight might have fallen off, or you need to have new tires, or it could need a front end alignment, but I would start out checking the balance on the tires and the shop should be able to tell you if it is a bent rim then go from there.

Probably just the road bumps and your car loosing power because of the road.

Check your tires too.