Slight steering wheel shake

Rotate the tires and see if it changes. You may have some tread seperation or something going on with the tires.

Carl

Thanks, I'll try that. I think I'm due to rotate them soon anyway.

-- Mark

Carl 1 Lucky Texan writes: (snip)

Weird. I can't reproduce it now. I'll look into it if it happens again! Maybe it depends on the road surface or something, or maybe the winter tires don't like if it gets much above freezing?

-- Mark

Yes, roads are tricky, I75 in the vecinity of my city causes all sorts of weird shimmys otherwise not present in the car.

Wheel shimmy can be caused by many th> Carl 1 Lucky Texan writes:

yeah - if its specific to a road surface - could be tramlining;

Carl

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Interesting, I didn't know that. Now I just have to find someone who has one. (-:

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"High performance tires with short sidewalls that develop lots of cornering power at lower slip angles will be more susceptible to tramlining" - hmmmm, I guess that helps explain why I've not noticed it in our less-exciting cars.

-- Mark

And it doesn't 'have' to be high-performance tires. WA DOT finally repaved a chunk of I5 here that would 'tramline' about anything. It was almost impossible to make a safe and sedate lane change on that stretch of road, you had to intentionally jerk the wheel to get out of the ruts.