Help with front end vibrations when braking

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

Warped rotors.
HTH
Al 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cory Langford [mailto:Cory_Langford@bcit.ca] 
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:15 AM
> To: Scirocco List
> Subject: Help with front end vibrations when braking
> 
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> Well, the mk1 has started to shimmy and shake quite a bit 
> when the brakes are applied.
> 
> My first instinct is to check the tie-rod ends, but then I 
> thought about it and figured if they were bad it would be 
> doing odd things even at speed.
> Driving it is fine. No shaking, steers straight, etc.
> 
> When you hit the brakes the whole steering wheel starts 
> feeling like one of those force feedback units in the arcade 
> when you hit a wall or grass :)
> 
> So I figure I would check the wisdom of the list and see if 
> anyone had a similar issue in the past and can save me a 
> bunch of time figuring out where the shaking is coming from.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Cory