steering wheel and tires shake when turning the wheel?

As cars age, the components on it can suffer from a multitude of ailments. Suspension bushings can become cracked and dried out, wheels can become bent and tires can be worn. This happens from normal use and can also be accelerated by accidents and a variety of driving conditions, such as rough roads and surface conditions. Your car may shake while you are driving for a variety of reasons.

Poor Alignment

Poor suspension alignment can cause a car to shake and vibrate. Suspensions can be knocked out of alignment by a variety of things, including rough roads, curbs and accidents. Your car’s alignment should be checked regularly. The suspension should also be aligned if new wheels, tires or even shocks are installed in the car, as these can all affect alignment settings.

Bent Or Worn Suspension Parts

If a car is in an accident or hits a curb—even at low speeds—the suspension components can easily become bent. This includes parts like control arms, trailing arms and other thin, vulnerable suspension parts. In order to fix this problem, the bent parts should be replaced and the car realigned.

Old Tires

Tires that are out of round or unevenly worn can cause a car to shake and vibrate when it is driven due to the uneven tread pattern or the fact that the tire is not perfectly round. If your tires are unevenly worn, the only solution is to replace them with new tires.

Bent Wheels

The wheels on cars and trucks often become dented or bent, particularly if the vehicle is driven into curbs during parking or driven over large potholes and ruts at higher speeds. The bends in the wheels will make the car vibrate and shake at whatever corner the wheel is at. The solution is either sending the wheel to a wheel repair shop or simply installing a new wheel.

Wrong Wheels

There are many different wheels available for today’s cars and trucks, but that doesn’t mean they all fit. One cause of shaking and vibrating can be a wheel that is not hub-centric, which occurs when the center bore of the wheel, where it fits over the vehicle’s hub, is slightly larger. This causes the wheel to move around a very small amount at high speeds, though it is enough to cause shaking.

Bad Brakes

If the brake rotors on your car are warped, it may cause the car to shake, though this will generally only occur under braking. When the brakes are applied on a car with warped rotors, the brake pads judder and bounce over the uneven surface of the rotor, which in turn causes the road wheel to shake, sometime very strongly. The fix is replacing or possibly resurfacing the brake rotors.

Steering Wheel Shakes When Turning

The same thing just happened to me. Did brakes and rotors on the back, everything was good. The next day did brakes on the front, I took it for a ride and there was a vicious vibration when turning and going straight. The next day we tried to figure the problem out took the wheels off and checked underneath couldn't see anything that was wrong or bad. We took it to a mechanic that's a friend, started it up and drove and the vibration was gone! We jacked the car up put front and back on jack stands, turned it on and it was only doing it while the car was in park didn't matter which way we turned the wheel. The mechanic didn't notice anything that was wrong, all the tie rod ends are good the bushings and everything else. It is so strange it never did this till the front brakes got replaced. We still don't know what the issue is but it's still driveable at this point.

I thought I was crazy! This exact thing happened to me! I just replaced my brakes and rotors all around, re packed the bearings, flushed the brake system and rotated the tires. All done! NOPE! As soon as I get it all put together I go to leave the driveway for a test drive and the wheel starts to shutter when I turn it to a certain point. Once I get past that point it stops but when I turn it back, it does it again! I was nervous to drive it so I left it and am driving my dads truck right now. Mine is a 1998 explorer with a v8. I thought this can't be coincidence that I went to trouble shoot Google style, and your question was the first to come up. I didn't feel like any of the answers were very specific to this situation so I was wondering if you ever figured out what the actual problem was with yours. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

There could be lot of reasons like

1. Tires out of balance or the "bushings" (not sure the technical term) are worn in the steering system.

2. It could be faulty steering dampers. This is a shock that crosses from left to right connecting to tie rod ends.

3. Check the lug nuts on all your tires.

4. Shaking could also occur from camber being ofset as well as all!

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i have the same problom with my ford transit it makes a howling noise when turning corners and front wheels seem to judder you can also feel it on the steering wheel and its the same whether turning left or right hand corners

simply need a new rack and pinion and make sure to repair any leaks in power steering system. Thats where all the fluid pressure is.

There seems to be some loose nuts and bolts.

Check the tire lug nuts.

Check the control arm, and ball joints. Either one of could be loose.

Low on power steering fluid or power-steering pump trouble.