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Old 01-07-2007, 06:50 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Steering wheel shakes when i brake

I was wondering if anyone could tell me why my steering wheel shakes when I Brake, I checked the rotors in the front and the back brakes they looked fine, THanks for any help on this matter
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Old 01-07-2007, 07:14 AM   #2 (permalink)
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If it is shaking when you hit the brakes the rotors are warped. This seemed to happen a lot on sephias..
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Well the quick and dirty is as follows....

If the steering wheel shakes, it is the front brakes. If the pedal bounces, it is the back brakes.
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yeah what he said
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Old 03-14-2007, 11:33 PM   #5 (permalink)
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If it is shaking when you hit the brakes the rotors are warped. This seemed to happen a lot on sephias..
I agree. you maybe did some serious braking!
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Nope the sephias have a problem with this.... Warping rotors
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Nope the sephias have a problem with this.... Warping rotors

Yeah here in the USA we call that manufactures defect. In fact they redisigned the rotors here and i had to pay atleast 100 us dollars for new ones....course that was like 6 years ago that i had to do that.
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