Re: Shaking steering wheel!!

["Casey Webster" <tinfool@home.com>]

I bet $100cdn (about $0.01 US) that your problem is not the wheels, but your
wheel bolts!  If you are using VW bolts on an aftermarket rim, they usually
will not seat properly.  VW bolts have a spherical seat while most
aftermarket wheels have 60 degree or something like that seat.  I recently
changed to properly seating bolts and now my car drives smooth as a sailboat
(......on rails..hehe)

Casey
84 Roc
78 Bunny


----- Original Message -----
From: <Accidi2000@aol.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:17 PM
Subject: Shaking steering wheel!!


> List
> Ok, i swapped wheels with a guy in my apartment complex right......
> they are 15 inch pather blades. He said that he felt shaking too at like
65
> mph, but he didnt know much about what was going on with his car. He didnt
> know if it was aligned, and he didnt know if he had front end probs or
what,
> or if the rims , or rim was bent. But i figured the problem was with his
car,
> so i swap the wheels, they fit and everything but the first thing i
noticed
> was the center thing on the brakes that kinda holds the wheel in place
untill
> you get the wheel tight was a little small and i totally had to hold the
> wheel up to get the lugs in, is this ok, or do i need spacers?,
> So i get the wheels on and take it on the freeway, and im getting the same
> shake at about 80  though, it was the right front, so i figured that the
> wheels just werent balanced. so today i have two new front tires put on
and
> have all the rims balanced, but on the way home the problem is not only
still
> there, its worse, so i ask, what is going on, is my alignment off, do you
> have to align a car if you put bigger wheels on?, im getting really bad
> steering wheel vibrations.
>
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