I feel a sort of shudder or vibration in my wife's '99 NA V70 (132K) as I slow to a stop. At first she complained of a brake problem that she felt in the pedal and the steering wheel as she braked to stop. I drove it and felt it, but I thought it was the engine stalling as the car slowed and the idle dropped, like the trans wasn't downshifting and was stalling the engine. But I also felt it when I slipped the trans into neutral before stopping. Having isolated the trans, I don't think that's the problem.

Unrelated, I took the car to be aligned and my alignment guy said he thought I might have a bad engine mount that was letting the engine move around too much. I hadn't mentioned the vibration to him.

I'm also wondering if a bad power steering pump might be putting strain on the engine as it returns to idle.

Has anyone experienced this? Any suggestion? TIA