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Slid into a ditch now when I go 55+ MPH car shakes?!?!

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ECLIPSE95

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Nov 13, 2002
Missoula, Montana
drove the family car today and I accedentally slid into a ditch because the roads completely turned to ice tonight...anyways it wasn't my DSM but i need some help...now whenever when I drive the car down the road it starts to shake after 55mph I think I messed up the alignment..what do you think? and how much is it to fix the alignment? like at les shawb or somthing...thankz
 
Well your aligment may be messed up now but that will not cause it to virbrate. Take in Les Schwab and tell them what happend they will check it out for you. You may have messed up some front end parts or maybe you just threw a weight and they need to be rebalanced. I worked for Les Schwab and people would come in for things like that all the time.
 
that sucks I hope I threw a weight or somthing my friend did the same thing and his car started shaking like that...sucks because I went into some kinda drain ditch and it went nose first and the front end of the car was on the ground like no space between the bumper and the ground and the ass end was up in the air...hope i didn't screw something serious up because I need that money for my car :cry:
 
well..first I slid down this mini type of hill sideways almost taking out an electral box...I was comming down from a gravel hill that was iced over and I meant to take a right but I kept going straight and then slid sideways down this hill somehow after a couple of cursing words I got the car straightened out and drove through this guys yard and I meant to pop out on this driveway but they had some kinda drainage ditch so that the water doesn't wash away their driveway...and I didn't see it of course because there was alot of snow and sure enough...the car rolled into the ditch nose first and got stuck so we had to tow the car out from the ass end which sucked then i got back on the driveway and drove away...stupid ditch
 
take it to a carwash and blast the wheels out hardcore, then go for a drive.

see if thats it. sounds like a good possibility of junk in your wheel, from the snow ice and mud
 
I'll give that a try:thumb:...it was all snow packed when I looked under the car..so that might be the cause...if it still does it then I'll take it to les shawb...thankz for the help
 
YUP, bent the two front rims which could been seen once the wheel was taken off...I kinda got off easy only 55 bucks for two barely used rims..(its those steel rims)...now back to my car now..I could've used that 55 bucks..oh well
 
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