skeith5
02-02-2012, 08:10 AM
I have done some searching and it seems like the driveshafts come up frequently as a culprit, but I don't think that's what is going on in my case.
I recently replaced the rotors, calipers, pads on both rear wheels after a meltdown of my parking brake. I also replaced the hub on my drivers side rear wheel. The car drove fine after that for several days, maybe 150-200 miles total. The day before yesterday I took it into Les Schwaab for an alignment and brake check. They told me that they wouldn't do an alignment without replacing the front tie rod ends which, according to them, are bad. (I've since checked them and they don't seem very loose to me.) The next day when driving to work the car was fine until I hit about 60mph. That's when the vibration started, it definitely feels like something became out of balance. Once it started it kept on, even when I slowed down. When I left work that afternoon it was fine again until I got out on the freeway, the vibration started again and lasted all the way until I got home. Last night I jacked the car up and took a look at everything I had done in the rear end and it all looked OK. I retorqued all of the bolts I had touched, nothing seemed wrong.
So here's my crazy theory....
When I put the rotors on I used a little bit of anti-sieze between the hub and the rotor. I don't have the locating pins. I noticed that the hole in the rotor is larger than the bolt, with all of the bolts in and the wheel off I could push the rotor around a little bit. Could it be that the rotor is breaking free at a certain speed or after the car warms up and shifting? Maybe that sounds crazy, but a big hunk of metal like that, off balance, could definitely cause a lot of vibration.
Since it happened after the visit to Les Schwaab is there anything they could of done in setting it up for an alignment that could have caused this?
Could it be the new bearing I got is bad? (Although this doesn't really feel like a bearing issue...)
I recently replaced the rotors, calipers, pads on both rear wheels after a meltdown of my parking brake. I also replaced the hub on my drivers side rear wheel. The car drove fine after that for several days, maybe 150-200 miles total. The day before yesterday I took it into Les Schwaab for an alignment and brake check. They told me that they wouldn't do an alignment without replacing the front tie rod ends which, according to them, are bad. (I've since checked them and they don't seem very loose to me.) The next day when driving to work the car was fine until I hit about 60mph. That's when the vibration started, it definitely feels like something became out of balance. Once it started it kept on, even when I slowed down. When I left work that afternoon it was fine again until I got out on the freeway, the vibration started again and lasted all the way until I got home. Last night I jacked the car up and took a look at everything I had done in the rear end and it all looked OK. I retorqued all of the bolts I had touched, nothing seemed wrong.
So here's my crazy theory....
When I put the rotors on I used a little bit of anti-sieze between the hub and the rotor. I don't have the locating pins. I noticed that the hole in the rotor is larger than the bolt, with all of the bolts in and the wheel off I could push the rotor around a little bit. Could it be that the rotor is breaking free at a certain speed or after the car warms up and shifting? Maybe that sounds crazy, but a big hunk of metal like that, off balance, could definitely cause a lot of vibration.
Since it happened after the visit to Les Schwaab is there anything they could of done in setting it up for an alignment that could have caused this?
Could it be the new bearing I got is bad? (Although this doesn't really feel like a bearing issue...)