Car Shakes

Hello Everyone,

My car has this shaking issue, not so bad in city driving but gets worst as my speed increases. Happens with both winter and all season tires(on their own rims). Brakes and bearings are good, struts and shocks i believe are original, alignment just done, some improvement.

Anything else i could check or missed.
Car has 333K.

Thanks
tcc

Drive axles perhaps? Do you feel it more as you accelerate?

I had a bad shake from really wore control arm bushings. Didn't feel it until 90+ km/h.

Have you had the wheels/tires balanced?

Where is the "shake" the whole car? In the floor? Steering wheel? Brakes applied? Does it go away if u apply the p-brake?

Andrew

I had shaking in my brake pedal and steering wheel... My control arm bushings were shot. Replaced them and all good.

More info

Yup, need more info. Front? Back?...changes with accel, decel? Turning? If someone aligned it, they didn't give you any indication of what it may or not be?

timecodeclock said:

Hello Everyone,

My car has this shaking issue, not so bad in city driving but gets worst as my speed increases. Happens with both winter and all season tires(on their own rims). Brakes and bearings are good, struts and shocks i believe are original, alignment just done, some improvement.

Anything else i could check or missed.
Car has 333K.

Thanks
tcc

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Axles is my first guess, followed by control arm bushings. Potentially shocks, but I'd be more inclined to call that on a Jeep or mudder vs. a mk4.

Do you have wheel spacers? If they're off slightly, that could cause your problems.

Have the tires been used for a few seasons? If the tires were cupped previous to having the alignment done, you could certainly feel it.

car brakes fine...shaking is almost non-existent until around 80kmh, at that point the steeling wheel shakes a bit and the passenger seat back starts to shakes, above 100 more steering wheel shake and seat back shaking about half an inch. I ruled out balancing as it makes no difference if i switch front to back or winter to all season.

Thanks to everyone for the help, going to take a look at the axles first and go from there.

tcc

Have the same issue going on with my car. Wheel bearings are newish, so am betting on the axle.

if the shake is more of a side to side shake/wobble then its your inner CV.

in my case you could feel the shaking/wobble at low speeds then as you picked up speed it would go away at certain speeds, then come back in at higher speeds.

I fixed it by replacing the Drive Axles on both sides. (when I removed them it was obvious the driver side inner cv was shot)

so far no shaking

My Golf (VW Certified Pre-Owned) had a bum right driveshaft. Same symptoms but started at 100 km/h. It also had a (visibly) bad shock among others. I had the dealer replace both right after the sale, since they falsely represented the car's fitness.