Lower Control Arm +

[Rick27]

I had no problem with my steering wheel shaking until I bought new tires, then BAM! The wheel shaking issue reared its ugly head.

After bringing it back, they re-balanced and re-aligned, with no luck. It made it slightly better, but still very noticeable from 40-45mph on up.

I then bring it to the dealer and they too re-balance the wheels with apparently no luck. $240 later, they told me that I need lower control arms, bushings and tension arm bushings for a grand total of just under $2k. And of course now the shake is twice as bad.

So I was about to bring it to D'Agostino's who is a foreign car garage in Stamford CT (who I've never used) to see what they thought, but now I'm thinking that I'm just going to spend another $150-$200 for somebody to look at it and quite possibly tell me the same thing.

I guess my question is...do you guys think I should just bite the bullet and get it done? I'd order the parts myself for about $450 total and have somebody do the work (NOT the dealer). Probably end up costing me a thousand bucks.

The thing I can't get past is that everything was fine until I bought new tires, so how could new tires cause a need for this work??? It's a 2006 4.8is with 72k miles. Any opinions/advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.