My car shakes a little to constantly for comfort, whats wrong with it?

Question

I was driving a little crazily in a parking lot a few days ago,
and now my car is extremely shaky,
it jiggles off the smallest things now,
and my axles were bad before this thing,
my car is extremely low,
so is it the shocks or something else in the suspension?

Answer 1

Well if the vehicle is a manual car, you may have messed up the clutch or transmission. In manual cars, this would cause uneasy idling and/or a shaky, uncomfortable ride when in motion.

Automatic cars may ride uneasy too if the transmission is not working properly either, but are more complicated.

Other than the transmission:

There could be numerous amounts of problems causing the uneasy shaking of your car.

If you are trained or know what you are doing, then try some of what I advise, if not, then just take your car to a professional; the professional will do the same.

One, check all of your external mechanical parts. Such parts include, your shocks, springs, axles, your drive-shaft, and your wheels and their whole units. (Drive-shafts are only evident in rear-wheel drive cars.)

Your wheels may be out of alignment or could possibly be unbalanced too. Such a problem could cause a shaking of the car and is easily caused by poor driving.

I know it isn't your axles (even though you said their condition is poor) because if either of your axles were broken or faulty, your vehicle would not be driveable...at all.

Same goes for the drive-shaft if your car is rear-wheel drive.


Second, have your computer read for errors or faulty readings of anything. Also check your relays. Any false reading of something could cause your car to run very uneasy because every reading leads to a mechanical action, hence why your car could be shaking. Plus, since you said you were driving a bit crazy a few days ago, you may have knocked an electrical component out of place or caused it to malfunction, especially if your car rides low or is not meant for crazy types of driving.

Third, check your internal engine for malfunctions or faulty parts. Any type of over exersion on any vehicle's engine could cause mechanical parts to overwork and malfunction and/or fail. One thing that could have occured internally is, you may have blown your head gasket. A head gasket is a layer of materials (usually thin layers of steel) between the engine block and the heads of the cylinders. If this is blown (destroyed, burnt out), this will cause leakage of coolants and/or cause less compression in the engine. This would most definately cause a shaking of your vehicle; not violent, but noticeable.

There are many other things in the internal engine of a car that may cause a shaking of a car, but listing them would be pointless. If it is an internal problem with the engine itself, you are going to have to take your vehicle to a professional to check the issue to re-assure you on what the problem really is because this is when it gets technical and expensive. ** I listed the blowing of a head gasket, because it is a common problem and isn't hard to do if the engine is over-exerted.**

I hope my answer can be of some insight to your question!

Answer 2

the actuality that it happens at 60mph and not different speeds tells me that's a resonant vibration and so is very just about quite no longer something greater intense or costly. In straight forward English this interprets as wanting to get your wheels balanced: that's a speedy and straightforward pastime which any tyre-setting up save will do for you and at uk expenditures you may anticipate to pay between £20 to £30-ish for the pastime. the subsequent likely reason is a broken tyre (or once you're unlucky, a broken wheel) wherein case it is going to likely choose changing. the two way, you may desire to get this considered to at present as this is probably very risky and likewise damages different aspects so provides to expenditures. if your alignment is off then this is checked afterwards if the two the indications proceed or if there is got here across to be excessively uneven tyre placed on, yet while the alignment is so far off that there is a serious vibration that's often an illustration of a worn suspension or guidance joint. Alignment tests and adjustment interior the united kingdom many times expenditures £30-£40 yet for sure if something desires restoration then the cost is very bigger.

Answer 3

if you didn't hit something, a bent rim is not likely. But you could have lost a balancing weight off of one of your rims and your tires will not be balanced anymore. You also might have worn out your ball-joints, which will make your front-end seem very loose. Jack-up each wheel (jack under the control-arm) and see how much play there is when you push/pull the bottom and top of the wheel. You will know by how much it moves. If you push/pull hard and can actually hear it clunking, they are shot.
This is a start...good luck.

Answer 4

Without driving it myself it's hard to say, but it could be a bad wheel bearing or could be out of alignment. It could be broken sway bar links or the shocks. Take it to a tire shop or a local repair shop and have them check it out.

Answer 5

Hard to say. Take it to an alignment shop and have the alignment ckecked. You may have messed with the tires, and flat spotted them. Get it looked at, it could be something serious that may get you into a wreck. good luck