Steering wheel shake

[ozzyhufc]

Please help the steering wheel shakes like mad say mid speed ........what I mean by that is when driving slow all fine when braking and at 60plus ok braking until around 50-30 it shakes like mad ......what could it be.      If callipers or disc it would do it all the time surely

[X5Sport]

Your vote has two 'Help' options.....

If it's not the brakes then it could be the bushes connecting the suspension, track control arms and suspension parts together.

It could just be a wheel out of balance or flat spotted or with a bulge.

Richard

[Timoth27]

[quote="X5Sport"]
Your vote has two 'Help' options.....

If it's not the brakes then it could be the bushes connecting the suspension, track control arms and suspension parts together.

It could just be a wheel out of balance or flat spotted or with a bulge.

Richard
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What he said, first thing I would do is get the wheels checked/balanced as it could even be a buckled wheel. Did it start all of a sudden maybe after hitting a pothole perhaps. It's proberbly the cheapest place to start aswell.

[shadrack]

as above, wheel balance, wheel bearing, bottom arms either, knackered tyre, discs, sticking caliper...the list is endless, get it looked at or start looking

[Raj]

As others have said it could be anything listed. I don't think it's the discs or tbh wheel balances. More common place is the bushes in the 2 lower arms connecting the chassis to hub. The front one is the thrust arm and rear the control arm. I replaced the front first but no better and then replaced the control ones and all sorted.

But as said you can try the simpler and cheaper options first.

[Smeeagain]

I've had this for 3 years since I had the car. No one can find the issue - I've changed wheels (17 inch winters to summers - so different wheels and tyres), all wheels balanced. bushes all checked (and all passed 3 MOT's) no-one can find the issue and it doesn't seem to have gotten any worse in 3 years (which is another 75k miles.....you would think if it was some kind of wear issue it would get noticeably worse over 75k miles.
if anything my perception is that it happens less with the 17 inch wheels than the 19 inch but it still happens nevertheless.

Smee

[Raj]

[quote="smeeagain"]
I've had this for 3 years since I had the car. No one can find the issue - I've changed wheels (17 inch winters to summers - so different wheels and tyres), all wheels balanced. bushes all checked (and all passed 3 MOT's) no-one can find the issue and it doesn't seem to have gotten any worse in 3 years (which is another 75k miles.....you would think if it was some kind of wear issue it would get noticeably worse over 75k miles.
if anything my perception is that it happens less with the 17 inch wheels than the 19 inch but it still happens nevertheless.

Smee
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The bushes appeared fine and passed MOT also. I changed the fronts due to searching and finding this was a common cause of the braking shake. I changed the rear control arms actually because noticed the balljoint protective rubber boot was a little perished and was causing a very slight knocking noise on full lock. And since changing the control arms all seems fine with the braking again.

[jaynana]

i had this prob and it got sorted by changing teh front bushes.. of course the tyres got changed at the same time too.

i've seen that some others have got this changed by eventually changing the ball joints?

this is a common problem in the E53, all suspension parts are suspects, start with the lower cost items.

some go down the path of brake pads and disks which i think is the wrong way to go..