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Steering Wheel shimmy/Rotors? 200

posted by  VampBoy on  Thu Jan 25 11:01 CST 2007
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Hi all.

I'm new to the board. Just bought my '88 240 dl wagon and the person who sold it was honest about the problems he knew about including about the front rotors being "warped" (he probably overtightened the lugs). They are getting replaced this weekend with Duralast rotors from Autozone, but I have another problem which I THINK is related but wanted to bounce off people to make sure.

The steering wheel shimmies side to side while the car is moving, in sort of a ka-thuck-ka-thuck motion. It follows the speed of the car (that is, it shimmy's faster when the car goes faster, slower when it goes slower). I am hoping it is the aforementioned rotors and not something expensive like an axle. Anyone else have any other ideas?

BTW, I will post whether changing the rotors fixes the problem.

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1988 240dl Wagon- Her name is Battlestar Gretta cause she don't take frak off anyone!






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