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Old 07-25-2005, 06:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation Steering Wheel Vibration 60-70 mph

That's it, I've decided to call the dealer today with regards to this issue. The steering wheel vibrates fairly noticable when the car is merging into the highway at about 60-70 mph. I've been watching it for about 1600 miles and has not subsided yet, gotten worse. THe car only has 2300 miles on it! WTF!

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The steering wheel vibrates and feels loose, worse at about 62-65mph about half inch of travel. It feels like the tires are not gripping although there is no drop in performance. The vibration is like you're going over very small speed traps or a more appropriate example is going over a road that has small symmetrical aberrations and the steering wheel obsorbs them. It doesn't pull the car to the left or right, so it doesn't effect the performance. It does it whether you're accelarating or slowing down. Its worse when you slow down.
there are no vibrations before or after this speed interval, the steering wheel is rock solid!

I've been reading some of the other posts similar issues but am unsure of the solution. Anyone had this problem? If yes, how is it corrected if correctable at all? Anywhere I should direct the dealer, cause I'm probably going to get "its normal BS"?

Any advice is appreciated before I make the phone call.
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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sounds like wheel balance to me... sb easy to correct.
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:09 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Agreed...you need to have all four wheels balance...might as well rotate them at the same time.
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Old 07-25-2005, 12:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Agreed...you need to have all four wheels balance...might as well rotate them at the same time.
Got to love the advise you get on this forum!

Called to schedule an appointment and explained to the Service Advisor the problem and he said it sounded like a wheel balance issue. He said that the car is too new to have this issue so must be that it must have been out of balance when I got it! Hopefully they should do it free otherwise I'll make a big deal out of it until they do the balancing for free.

Scheduled to go in Friday. We'll see if they fix it. Thanks LWOOD and Chamby1.
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Old 07-25-2005, 06:48 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Ask about on the car balancing, it is superior, it balances the wheel, tire, rotor, bearing, and any other rotating parts,
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Junk Tires

Its the "Junk Tires" that Chrysler put on the car as OEM and the OEM of the tires will not help. At 21K I can't run 75mph. It I do the steering wheel will shake so bad that it feels like its about ready to leave the car. BTW it became worse when I rotated the tires. And we won't even speak of the uneven wear.
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I think a good tire balance would solve your problem.
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Old 07-26-2005, 02:02 PM   #8 (permalink)
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It is not a very exspensive deal do not make a big deal you may need a friend in the service dept.
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Old 07-26-2005, 07:51 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Its the "Junk Tires" that Chrysler put on the car as OEM and the OEM of the tires will not help. At 21K I can't run 75mph. It I do the steering wheel will shake so bad that it feels like its about ready to leave the car. BTW it became worse when I rotated the tires. And we won't even speak of the uneven wear.
mspeasl, I tend to agree. Do you have the self-sealing Continentals? I have them and I think that is what is causing my vibration. Yes, it is an imbalance issue, but what caused it? The lousy tires! I've never had to rebalance wheels prior to replacing tires on any other vehicle I've had, so to me, it is something with these tires.

As far as the uneven wear, I had mine in for the right pull at around 5,000 miles. Outer edges of the tires were feathering rather badly. They aligned and rotated the tires and I no longer have any noticeable wear differences between the front and rear.

Or, maybe you just mean you can't keep from doing burnouts?
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Or, maybe you just mean you can't keep from doing burnouts?
I'm 63 and to old and the wear is to uneven even for that.
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