Car Shake!

[96DsmTunr]

Ok so I just had the car at the shop and had my suspension put on. List or what I got installed: type flex coilovers, camber adjusters, new axles (front), Tein damper control, Toyo tires, new control arms, and brake backing plate. I had new rotors put on the front and rear rotors resurfaced a month and a half ago along with new front calipers and new pads all around. As you can tell the car sat around for a while so after everything was finished I had the car out and driving. I have a very bad vibration when I'm on the gas and when I let up off the gas the car wants to pull to the right. That is the only time it pulls that direction. Any suggestions to why? The problem seemed to get bad right after I got the new tires on and new control arms. I also experience a squeak when I turn the wheel back and forth while at a stop, it probably makes that sound when I drive but the car is so loud and vibrates so much I probably don't hear it. Also when I am at a stop sometimes the rpm goes from 400 to 1200 then back down but I think that might be because my bov is venting.
These are suspension parts I already had on the car: Poly motor mounts, rm swaybars, front and rear tower brace. I also have a power intake, upper intercooler pipes, bov, full 3 inch exhaust, new trans and clutch (OEM) that has about 5k miles on it, and new rack and pin that has about 4k miles on it.

 

[ClevelandDSM]

" also experience a squeak when I turn the wheel back and forth while at a stop, it probably makes that sound when I drive but the car is so loud and vibrates so much I probably don't hear it."


Is the squeak comming from the stearing wheel\ stearing columb(?) when your are doing this , or from the right front where your " shake " is comming from.

 

[heckles]

Make sure the control arm bolts havent backed out

 

[OverboostGSX]

Might seem like an incomplete or obvious answer, but was the car properly aligned after the suspension work was completed?

 

[djordan97]

and the tires were balanced when put on right?

 

[wises4057]

I'd check to make sure all the bolts are tight on the control arms and suspension still, and if you didn't have an alignment done, that is a must.

 

[Project2G]

and the tires were balanced when put on right?

That's what I was thinkg as well. Were the tires balanced correctly on the rims?

 

[96DsmTunr]

From what I was told the car was aligned twice the first time they forgot a control arm and had to redo it. The tires were also balanced from what they said. It was Tire Discounters Performance in Cincinnati Ohio. They work on a ton of track racing cars like SCCA Porsches, so I would hope they know what they are doing. I also checked the lugs all around incase one might have come lose. I will get under it tonight and check to make sure all the bolts were tight as well because now that think of it they forgot to tighten a camber bolt last time. Lastly the squeak seems to be coming from outside the car not inside. I'm going to try to push down on all four corners and see if I hear a squeak as well. That means a strut is blown right? I have put maybe 130 miles on the car since the work was done.

Forgot this… The shake feels like it’s throughout the whole car not in just one area. I can feel it in the pedal, steering wheel, seat, everywhere. It’s so bad I can hear my windows rattle when they are down and hear plastic in the rear vibrating.

 

[striker827]

You might just have a defective tire... take it off and roll it to see if it has a sway or bulge on it

 

[96DsmTunr]

If it was defective wouldn't it shake all the time and not just when I hit the gas. Cause if I speed up and let off the gas everything is fine it wont shake.

 

[xsboost]

So basically, you have a problem after they worked on your car that you didn't have before. Seems like they're liable and they should find the problem and fix it.

 

[btak]

I would check the whole suspension over make sure everything is tight and maybe a possible bad tie rod?

 

[96DsmTunr]

Well I called them and am taking the car back. I just can't be without a car for another month again. I checked the front right and pushed down on the fender and heard a real bad sqeak like a strut or something is blown.

So they said the front right control arm was bad which is why i had a squeak. Now for the shaking it is caused by bad driveshaft bearings... So well see if it fixes the problem. I'm not very happy with all of this that just happened to start after the suspension was put on.

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

They probably could have caught those problems when they had the car on the lift if they cared to investigate and practice good business but it was easier for you to run back to them and spend more money. Our cars are too 'demanding' of attention to allow 'mechanics' other than yourself to work on it. You are keeping up on maintenance pretty well from what you tell us here though...

 

[pullerfan]

i had the same squeaking problem and some what of the shakin problem but that was at like 80 mph.. i had my lower arm controls replace (warrenty check it out if you havent done it yet takes about 2 hrs) and it took the squeak away and a lil bit of the shakin the rest should be cured when i balance my tires...

 

[96DsmTunr]

My "frame" is the problem (well it doesn't have a frame because its unibody but the rails are bent real bad underneath). It pushed my driveshaft out of alignment so it has a slight bend in it. It should be fixed in a few weeks.