I have a 94 Honda Accord EX when I drive fast or break the car shakes what can it be?

Answer 1

had this experience in my other cars, it was my tires, they were starting to tread inside...my car shook every time i went over 70 also when i started to slow down i felt it also mostly in my steering wheel.

Answer 2

It depends on how your car shakes and when exactly it shakes.
It also depends on whether it shakes, rattles, or bounces.
On top of that, it depends on what kind of noise it makes, if any.

If you have bad tires, it could rattle and swerve back and forth on smooth and flat road surfaces, and it will rattle and swerve faster as you go faster.
However, it can be a bad CV joint, like others mentioned, or it can be just a tear on the CV boot - which means the fluid leaked and the joint can't move smoothly - that can cause some rattling as you drive, but more irratically than if it were bad tires.

Check your treads on your tires - look at them - see if the tread is wearing unevenly or if one side is higher than the other on each tire. Look at your tires from far away, do they look lob-sided? If the car looks lobsided, then it could be your shocks, it could be your axles, or it could be your sumo wrestler buddy sitting on one side of the car. It can be wheel balance - the tech might have forgot to balance it for you, it could be alignment - that could cause uneven wear on your tread. Balancing and Alignment are worth the money especially if you haven't used them much. It could be a pothole like it's been suggested, it could have been a curb you went over or hit, you might have squeezed the wheel against the curb while parallel parking, you could be pushing too far into the parking curb at the mall, you could make lots of "sharp" turns and bounces over steep corners and high road bumps, etc..
Let's hope it's not engine balance being off ;op

If the shaking and rattling occurs strictly only when you push the gas pedal as you accelerate, it could be the drive-line that's off-balance(typical on lowered-cars) from all the dents and bends by going over very high road bumps or steep driveways into shopping malls. It can be your U-Joint(Universal Joint), which is a soft "U" shaped joint that connects power from your tranny to the wheels. It could also be that you didn't get a regular oil change and oil filter change at regular intervals. When the filter gets clogged, and the oil is burnt and brown and sticky, that can shake your car quite a bit too. It might even be your spark plugs or bad fuel-infection port, bad throttle control valve, etc..
If your Engine Coolant isn't regularly replaced(usually around 10,000-15,000 miles, or depending on how you drive), and it can't get rid of heat efficiently, it will burn more oil which will clog your filter, and etc...

It can also be your transmission developing problems. Check your fluid. If it's brown then you may have a major problem developing, so get it checked out right away. Maintaining a Transmission is cheap, Repairing a Transmission is very-very expensive.

If your car shakes just when you are braking, in the newer model cars or cars that came equipped with ABS(Anti-Lock Brake System) can shake a bit - if you brake hard moving at a very high speed, because the brakes touch and release rapidly while slowing your car down. I shouldn't shake in 2000 or later model cars(maybe recalled by your car manufacturer), but you might feel a little bit of vibration if you brake really hard from moving really fast.
If it's your brake rotor, then it may need to be shaved, depending on how thick it is. If your brake pads are all worn out against the rotor, then the rotor may have been badly shaved and warped already, which means $$$ out of your pocket. Replacing pads early and on time is so much cheaper than Rotors...

It could be your front shocks if your car sinks or bounces back real hard when you brake...so...

Think about getting Major Service done at every 30,000 miles, and Minor Service at around every 15,000 miles... it will keep you from spending a lot more in the long run! :o)

It's just plain cheaper to take it to a trusted mechanic and spend a little $, it's a lot better than spending $$ or $$$ or $$$$$$$@#$(%*@#$#$%@#!$$$$$$ :o)

Answer 3

Its a 94 Honda dude. get a better car that's designed for speed and handling.

Answer 4

My car did the same thing. Although it's a Jeep and not a Honda, it was the tires. I got them balanced and rotates and the problem was solved.

Answer 5

Balance your tires or replace them and when it's up on the lift c/o the cv shafts the mech will be happy to do so. Bye the way heat needs fuel cold grows from nothing:D

Answer 6

High speed shaking - wheel balance or uneven tread wear.
Braking shaking - warped brake rotor.
You hit a pothole, didn't you?

Answer 7

CV joint.

Its not the breaks or roters because it happens when you drive fast not just when you break. And I would assume you know what shape your tires are in.

Answer 8

Yeah, I would say warped brake rotors. You may need to get them resurfaced or replaced, along with new brake pads.

Answer 9

BRAKES!!! OMG, be careful, and get your brakes replaced immediately. I'm guessing its the brake pad down to metal rubbing against the rotor (metal-to-metal). Not safe.

Answer 10

new tires a balance ummm alignment umm what else? ur brakes rotors