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Old 03-04-2019, 02:29 AM
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I have a shimmy in the steering wheel at 98-105 kph but it's not felt in the car only the steering wheel and you can apply force to the wheel and it gets reduced. I have all new joints, tie rods, bags etc. plus rebuilt the steering rack and nothing has fixed it not even high speed balancing. Any ideas?

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Yours sounds like a tire issue. Like a belt failure. I have slight shimmy in my brand new conti dws06, so that might be the last one I buy. But just to be safe I suggest checking axles.

Have Inpa handy to reset air suspension inactive. Put car in the air on a lift or jack stands. And start driving, in the air. Walk around looking at shit. Don’t mind the crazy clunks as there is no load on anything.
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Old 03-04-2019, 04:04 AM
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Ok I'll try it, but wouldn't a tire issue (belt) continue to shimmy after it hits speed where it shows and why is it just felt in the steering wheel and not the whole car?

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Old 03-04-2019, 04:48 AM
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Ok I'll try it, but wouldn't a tire issue (belt) continue to shimmy after it hits speed where it shows and why is it just felt in the steering wheel and not the whole car?

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That one is simple. The front end is worn out

One of the control arms as I call them is loose. The tires shimmy is amplified by the looseness and is felt thru the steering.

If the parts are new and or in perfect condition you get a simple bounce effect like your expecting. When they are worn it shows up in the steering wheel before it gets bad enough to bounce the car.

I ran into this in my wife's 528i aka the E39. I happened to replace the bad tire AFTER replacing the control arms. Replacing arms changed the shimmy to a bounce. Replacing the tire fixed the rest.

My most recent X5 has the same problem. The passenger side front tire has a bad belt. It was bouncing at first. I haven't changed it yet.

Repeated trips up the driveway at the old house each weekend is causing the worn control arms to get more give in them. The bounce has migrated into a shimmy now.

So to recap when I bought the X5 the front end wasn't really that loose so the bad tire showed as a bounce/vibration of a bad tire.

Each weekend trip as moved this from bouncing to shimmy. It also shimmy's worse braking now too when the shimmy effect is already happening and the brakes are used to slow down for a turn.

So to fix this I will have to replace the bad tire AND the control arms.

Good news is the arms are cheap, easy to change and don't require an alignment after changing them. Its a great design for severe duty use offroad I have found over the years.
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