steering wheel shaking..........but its not what u think!!!!!!!!

[91accord4door]

ok i just got my accord back on the road and this problem has been around for awhile and its agravating now. ok i know the steering wheel shakes when rotors are bad but i habe brand new rotors and the steering wheel only shakes a little bit and its not when i brake,secondly when i hold the steering wheel 100% straight the car go off to the right hard, now when i drive in a straight line the H on the wheel is to the left quite a bit and at high speeds on the highway the wheel shakes a lot too? is this an alignment problem, i had 4 stock wheels tires on the car and had to put air in them every other day because of dry rot, than went to 17's with "iffy" tires, now i have 17's on the back and stealies on the front (with new tires) but it still shakes, would an alignment fix this shaking problem? when i got the car icould hold the wheel straight and the car would go straight, but now ihave to have it turned to the left a bit to go straight/?????? what do u guys think? thanks.

[ACCORDianate]

Sounds like you've been either hitting too many potholes on the right side or dinging too many curbs. I bet you eat up tires too.

Since you have to hold the wheel to the left to keep it going striaght down the road the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Alignment.

[Smiley_cb7]

First thing I would be tires, but it sounds like that may not be this issue. Allighnment? Hopefully that is the only problem.

[h22sparkle]

alaignment it is casue i have the same problem too. And the vibration may also be becasue of bends in the rims have you hit any potholes whatsoever,cause i have take a close look at your rims they tell all.

[accordztech]

take off ur front tires and put em back on....sometimes when u drive and vibrations it means either u have a loose lug nut or a bad one that didnt tighten well...

u could have spots on ur tire where its not even...so it isnt fully round creating that sound.

take it to the alignment shop.

[dwf137]

sounds like an alignment problem..

[91accord4door]

thanks guys, i will go tommorrow because its pissing me off.

[ACCORDEX92]

YOU SHOULD ALSO GET THE WHEELS BALANCED AND IF IT STILL DOES IT AFTER THAT AND THE ALIGNMENT THEN YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE STEERING COLUMN AND FOLLOW ALL THE WAY DOWN AT THE END OF IT YOU WILL SEE SOME U- JOINTS SHAKE THE WHEEL AND LOOK AT THE JOINTS YOU MIGHT SEE SOME PLAY IN THEM IF YOU DO THAT MIGHT BE THE PROBLEM BAD U-JOINTS

[91accord4door]

hmmm unbalanced wheels/tires would do this? i did get worse since new wheels tires in front.i'll try this next.