Shakes at about 60-65 mph

[scirocco@powerlink.net (John C. Worden)]

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Unless you have an after market kit on the car, the body kit pieces are 
plastic, not fiberglass.

John

At 04:36 PM 1/12/03 -0500, Aaron Aunins wrote:



>Hi everyone,
>
>     I recently had a small accident with my car, an 87 16V, where I slid 
> sideways into a ditch.  Things are mostly O.K as I just hurt a couple of 
> the fiberglass body kit parts (which I am finding to be very hard to 
> find). The tire popped off the rim as a result, and the toe was knocked 
> out.  I had the had a new tire mounted on the rim, and had the car 
> aligned.  The control arms and everything else were fine.  The technician 
> said that the rim looked bent (the one which took most of the force), so 
> I expected it to shimmy a little.  I tried putting another teardrop rim 
> on my car to see if it still wobbled, and it does at around 60-65 
> mph.  Thus, I think something else is still wrong, as I know the other 
> rim I tried isn't bent.  I checked all of the tire pressures as well and 
> they are O.K.  I'm assuming the alignment is still out causing the car to 
> shimy a little at higher speeds.  It feels great below 55 - 65.  If 
> anyone has any ideas (assuming the car is aligned properly) as to why my 
> car might be doing this, I would appreciate it.  Also if anyone is 
> selling some 16V bodykit parts I would greatly appreciate it.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Aaron
>87 16V
>
>
>
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