My steering wheel is shaking like crazy when I drive my FD. Here is the situation.

- First I had stock rims and the car was very smooth.

-Then I put on 18" rims and had them balanced at a shop before installing them on my car. Did he do a pos job? Possible. My steering wheel was shaking too much. I never had them balanced again, because I don't have time to play with my FD.

-Now the winter is here, I put back the stock rims and it's acting like the 18" rims. The car is not smooth anymore.

 

it could also be your alignment.. try and check that and see if it helps.

 

Yeah I'd say do a full alignment. If all that checks out and your steering wheel still shakes then maybe one of the rims aren't balanced correctly.

-Dan


Actually wait a min, you said after putting on your stock rims your steering wheel still shakes? If so then it probably is alignment. Good luck.

 

Wreckless, mine would shake like that when my Struts were going out. But, it certainly could be that you need re-alignment.

 

did u have hubcentric rings on your rims, if u didnt then thats why

 

Yep it could be that the rims have no hub centric rings on them.Pull one off and check to see if they have them.

 

what is a hubcentric ring so we all know what page I'm not on.

 

I had the hubcentric rings on the Racing Hart rims when I put it on my FD. I wasn't aware that the stock rims comes with hubcentric rings.

 

They don't. I don't think that's your issue.

 

Get them rebalanced, thats what I'd do. Check which ones have the lowest amounts of weights and make sure they are in the fronts. If there is more than one weight on one side of the wheel (inside or outside) and its not right up against the other weight, then they arn't balanced right. (if that made any sense, haha). Also, some people just get weights on the inside of the wheel. That is called a static balance. It doesn't correct the balance completly like a dynamic balance does (weights inside and outside).

 

u shure those wheels arn't bent?

 

I went to my basement and noticed that one of the hub rings were missing from the Racing Hart rims. I jacked up the car and noticed that I forgot to remove it before installing the stock rims. Pretty stupid mistake, however, my car feels great again.

 

Good news then! At least you went to the trouble to look. I'm amazed at the number of people here who ask questions but are too lazy to lift a finger and actually do anything about their problem.

 

AWESOME! Glad its fixed!

 

I had that problem before thats why I toid you to check.