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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:03 PM
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Front end shaking bad at 120mph

This starts at about 80mph then when i decide to give it a little more i get more and more shaking. Basically whats happening is that the front end feels like it wants to fall apart the faster i go. It actually stops me from going any faster.
Never had this problem before, the car was off the road for 6 months.
Any ideas???
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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Have your tires balanced.

That should help. Esp if it sat for a long time.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:24 PM
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yeah, maybe your tires got flat spots.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:26 PM
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Yeah someone else mentioned balancing. Anything else it could be though??

Oh i dident mention that my front tires are almost bald
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:38 PM
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wow. Im suprised u didnt get flamed by some of the uptight people around her for going so fast. But yes have ur tires balanced. Possiblly front end alignment. Check it out.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:39 PM
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Why would you go 120mph on bald tires? Death wish?
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:55 PM
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dont fix anything. do yourself and us a favor and keep it under 80, infact, sell your car

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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:56 PM
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^^^ What he said!
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 08:57 PM
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 09:51 PM
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I've taken my car up to 140 on a back road. There is absolutley nothing wrong with taking your car up to those speeds as long as your car is not crazy uncontrollable (like yours) and there is no one else on the road or on the side of the road. The road I do speed test on are on some country road where the only thing I would hit is a cow if it got out of the fence.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 10:18 PM
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listen to wayne. and get new tires.
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Old Jun 10, 2005 | 10:48 PM
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exactly.

Originally Posted by hondahater
I've taken my car up to 140 on a back road. There is absolutley nothing wrong with taking your car up to those speeds as long as your car is not crazy uncontrollable (like yours) and there is no one else on the road or on the side of the road. The road I do speed test on are on some country road where the only thing I would hit is a cow if it got out of the fence.
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Old Jun 11, 2005 | 08:54 PM
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Ive gone 155 on an empty highway at 1am, but I feel pretty stupid now. If you think about it, is it really worth it? If you did happen to lose control, you are dead.
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Old Jun 11, 2005 | 10:07 PM
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so why does everyone spend so much money for tuboes intake exhausts etc if tehyre notg goign to go fast? I dont mean at all to sound immature or anything but Im just wondering. Do you go to the track to play? Or do you jsut like knowing you have that much oomph under the hood just in case?

I guess its sorta like car stereos. nobody really need a 1 million dB stereo but they still pop up :P
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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 01:56 AM
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man if u wanna get ur *** killed go ahead. just dont hit anyone while ur at it.

anyways.. it could be alot of things. check bushings.. car got an accident history? tagged a curb? flat tires unbalanced wheels.. driveshaft?! .. theres a whole list man.
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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 10:56 AM
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Hondahater doing 140 + a cow = alot of hamburger meat
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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 11:34 AM
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lol yeah I've thought about that Truthfully, I don't do that very often and really have only done it twice just to see what the car was capable of. Needless to say it gets up there fairly quick
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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 12:49 PM
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i go atleast 120 on crowded socal highways on a weekly basis D:
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Old Jun 12, 2005 | 01:08 PM
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so that was u that flew by me when i was doing 100. lol .california drivers
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