tesla

Does anyone else have a problem when the car sits over nite or when it hasnt been driven in a while get real bad steering wheel shake and feels like the tires are flat 07 gt auto 3300 k dealer said they havent heard of this problem before any input welcome thanks tires are stock pirellis i think thats how u spell it

tesla

i forgot to add there 18 in tires

05Retro

I have stock Perilli's on the front and notice almost a back and forth movement of the steering wheel which seems to have a vibration with it. It does seem worse when cold but it is still there when warm andgoing about 60 mph.

ChiDiddy

i have this issue as well. But i drive it daily and get it daily, more noticeable at freeway speeds. Got the tires balance checked and they said its fine.

Norm Peterson

Might try getting them "Road Force Balanced". Not all tire shops or even dealers have this capability. Out of curiosity, were the tires even match-mounted (involves those colored dots)?


Norm

tesla

not sure when i got the car dealer got it 3 states away for me so i dont know i noticed that i have wheel weights mounted on the inside of the rims its got the chrome 18in wheels

Norm Peterson

You may be able to check for match-mounting yourself

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...currentpage=39


You may be able to tell if the balancing was done statically (all the wheel weights will be the same distance from the back side) or dynamically (two different distances, one near the edge and one near the wheel center). At least the ones near the wheel center will be stick-ons. It is possible to have a shimmy (steering wheel vibrates in a back and forth rotation like it's steering itself) problem with wheels that are in perfect static balance. Static balance only fixes an up-down shake of the steering wheel.

Then there's the simplest cause - you've thrown one or more of the weights making the wheel (or wheels) obviously out of balance. Most racers will use a strip of duct tape over each stick-on weight as a little insurance.


Norm

JimC

I used to get a shimmy and had the tires checked a couple of times. Once I had thrown a weight, but every other time they checked out fine. Since then I replaced my stock driveshaft with the aluminum one piece from Shaftmasters - the shake is gone now for me so it could be your stock driveshaft

AshTang

Could be what is know as "flat-spotting". This happens when the tire sits for long periods of time. (overnight) Some tire designs are more likely to see this than others. Usually once the tire heats up some it will go away. I have stock Pirellis myself (17s), and see this on colder mornings on the way to work. Goes away after a couple of miles at speed.


Shawn