Vibrations in the steering wheel and pedal around 70mph

[JTsyo]

I took it in and had the wheels balanced but it's still there. What else can it be? Guessing it's highly likely tire related, hoping it not the engine.

 

[Balr0g]

Did you get an alignment too?

 

[Mxylplyx]

Really warped rotor?

Excessive play in ball joints or wheel bearings?

 

[radioouman]

Could be a cupped tire from driving on a bad alignment (or having a worn out tie rod end).

 

[JTsyo]

There was no alignment, just balance. I'll have to take it I guess and let a shop troubleshoot it.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Alignment shouldn't make a difference. If the tires were out of align you would feel the car pull one way or another.

When you take it to get it balanced do one of 2 things (or both):
1. Take it to a place that has a road force balancer
2. Watch them balance the tire - a lot of the cheapo shops will see the required weight and just slap it on there not paying any attention that the rim might not be round or that, if they aren't using sticky weights, they have weight going 3/4 of the way around the tire.

If it is a very warped break rotor, I would imagine that there would be some sort of burning smell with it as the rotor shouldn't just be dragging along. Not to mention the fact that the rotor would have to be so ridiculously warped that a child could notice something was wrong with the tire off.

-Kevin

 

[dug777]

I know when my car starts developing that kind of symptom, vibrations at over a certain (usually high) speed, it's usually an unbalanced wheel.

EDIT: It could also be a flat spot on a tyre, have you checked them carefully?

 

[destrekor]

I'll get that too from time to time, and I figured it was mostly just the way the engine is in my '97 Dakota (3.9L V6). I don't get it often, at least not that I recall recently, but whenever it would happen, it was always kind of at a magic number. A certain speed was kind of the ceiling, and tended to felt like it may have been only after it switched into a different gear (automatic), and it would fall out and no longer happen once I continued acceleration past the particular threshold.

 

[Black88GTA]

My Honda did this awhile back. Turns out there was a bubble in the tire sidewall causing it. Check the tires (inside and out) for bulges / bubbles. If one is there, replace it now - driving on a bubbled tire is dangerous.

 

[herm0016]

it could be a wheel bearing also. kick the front tires to see if they are loose feeling.

 

[funboy6942]

Dont rule out tie rods, bad rack, ball joints, shocks/struts, wheel bearings, etc lots of things other the wheels unbalanced will cause a shake in the wheel. Even fix a flat in a tire will cause the shakes.

 

[RFtesla]

One of the rims might be damaged somehow. When I first bought my bmw, there was some vibration at high speeds in the steering wheel as too. I replaced the wheels with some different ones and that was the solution.

 

[Juddog]

This happened to me, and it ended up being the wheel / rim causing it. I went through several sets of tires, ball joints etc. because the vibration was damaging things in the front over time. I tried replacing damn near everything except the wheel itself, then when I finally ordered a new wheel all of a sudden it was totally smooth again.

 

[SSSnail]

If you've done alignment and balance your tire, then the possibility of a bent wheel is not out of the question. Try another set of wheels and see if the problem persists.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I was having a similar problem and it ended up being a flat spot on a tire

 

[rezinn]

Since no one said it, could be an unbalanced driveshaft.

 

[Toastedlightly]

if you feel it in the wheel, rotate your tires front to back. If it is a tire/rim, you should feel a difference between the two configurations.