yeah ive had this problem for a couple of months now, when ever i speed up to about 80, then have to brake reasonably firmly, i feel the steering wheel wobble from the front right (just where im feeling it coming from) but yeah, when i break lightly then its fine, no worries.

ive been told that the breaks are reasonably new and i should just get them shaved? that the right thing to do? coz the wobble could be caused just by the break disks being warped like 1mm or something?

also the other weekend when i was driving to Gerroa along the higway, i was just cruising along, but when i got up to 100 - 110 the steering wheel was wobbling NOTICABLY, looked like i had torrets or something, my hand was firmly on the wheel and was shaking a good 3cm back and forth, i got out of the car, checked the nuts on my new rims (which are now lower profile to my last ones) they were all fine, so i just assumed it was ****ty road, but when it kept happening now im starting to get a tad worried. is it the fact that ive got lower profile rubber? or could it be something worse? any ideas? i NEVER had the shudder with my stock rims on there.

when i got my new rims put on i got them aligned.

i read thru Ashneels thread and he seemed to have the same problem as what im getting, but i think he has a more recent car? and i didnt see him mention any problems with breaking. so yeah i just thought i would ask.

cheers,
Tristan

Edit: also i have stock springs in there, Ashneels problem was his aftermarket ones had moved.

i havent ever noticed it in the magna but my old pintara had it pretty bad, always put it down to a FWD thing and never did anything about it

You might have a little disc brake runout ( smidge buckled ) in which case a skim would sort it out.

That being said its not normal for the wheel to wobble like that without applying the brakes. You may have a ball joint or bush problem that has become pronounced because of the lower profile rubber.

Get the front wheels balanced and get one of those pedders $14 suspension checks but dont let em do anything, they find **** that aint there quite often if you know what I mean.

If that fails to locate the problem then you might try the brake machining. :D

try chucking ur old rims on if u still have them and see if the problem is still der. if it is the rims they could be faulty ask for a refund or an explanation from the joint u got it from

twice while I had my TE I had this exact same thing.

Get your discs machined - they are warped.

-Dan

This happens on mi car too, but only when i got mi rims put on it was happening..... And i feel the same with braking as well, but mine pulls to the left....

you changed rims, get them balanced and aligned :) doesnt cost much should take around 30mins.

some rims need spacers, so again, a quick drop into a tyre centre will sort you out. If your around parramatta anytime soon, i can take u down to spin city there and they can give it a quick going over :)

even with the old rims i still had the wobble to do with breaking, but never when going over 100km/h, thats only just started with the new rims.
when i got the new rims on i got them balanced and aligned :P
thanks dan ill try that and see if that does anything :)

Its definately your brakes are warped. They will have to be machined I'm afraid. I've had this problem before :(

The vibration during braking sounds like a warped disc problem but could also be suspension or wheel alignment related. Check your ball joints, tie rods and wheel bearings and check run out of the disc.
As for the vibration at speed if it only does it with the new rims I would get the place that fitted them up to check the balance, it could also be a dodgy tyre.
Also, with some rims the centre hole may be larger than the hub on the car. The rim should locate on the hub not on the wheel studs. Most places use spacer rings to centrally locate the wheel on the hub. Without spacer rings I have seen vibration being a problem in the past.
I have also seen rims which had the wheel stud holes actually 5mm off to one side.ie not in the centre of the rim, so check that too.

well the rims came with spacers already on there so that they could fit a VRX lancer, but when we put them on my car (we were gonna take the spacers out) but we didnt coz with the spacers it fit perfectly, i think i will get the disks machined, then if the problem still persists then when i take it in for its 120XXX service ill get them to have a look :) so in about 2500 more kms.
cheers for your help so far :)

definatly the disks.

do you feel it in the break aswell? may feel slight vibration on your foot.

i had my card serviced yesterday, had disks machined and vibration is now gone.

could also be an issue with the steering column being loose?

i recently got lower porfile tyres on my car, i did notice a greater "road feel" in the steering but nothing out of the ordinary to what i was already feeling with the disk issue.

get them machined, it should fix it.

I had this problem as well on my Tr it turned out one of my rotors was warped a little. I was told i could get em machined would cost around 50 a side but it would cost me more if they didnt have enough to be machined and had to find some others to put em on. I found a set on Ebay with break pads for $110 so i thought it would just be better to get new ones and now no more shaking. Smooth as.:cool:

twice while I had my TE I had this exact same thing.

Get your discs machined - they are warped.

-Dan

Agreed. Same thing happened on my 94 Verada. They machined the discs and all works fine now.

If you can fit them yourself, (it's easy), just buy new rotors