Car vibrates only in REVERSE...why?

[da1mic]

alright you guys always give me such great advice and you all know what your doin so here it goes...

when i'm reversing and i hold down the brake, the car starts shaking nasty, when i let go of the brake the shaking decreases and when i accelerate in reverse it completly stops. also, the car has a funny iddle when i'm at a stop light.

why do you all think this is happening?

[ACCORDianate]

It sounds like shot motor mounts to me.

[TheTempest]

Hey, is your car auto? If so every auto accord I've driven had a vibration in reverse and from what I hear it's common accross foriegn cars. If it goes away I wouldn't worry about it too much.

As ACCORDianate said, it could also be the mounts. though it's intresting they don't virbate all the time.

Good luck.

[HondaGuy1212]

yea i could be your motor mounts maybe the rear motor mount

[oanju123]

only in reverse sounds strange....

i had the same exact problem when i was at a stop light in Drive....shook way too much...

i'm having my front motor mount replaced, which was the cause.

[i_love_cb7]

Mine shakes in reverse too.......could it be the rear motor mounts?

[accordaffair]

You'll probably be vibrating the most in Reverse, not to mention with the air conditioning on, that's very common for an automatic. Now to alleviate some of that vibration I would replace the rear motor mount. I will self-plug and link you to my write-up on it.

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=27485

I did mine a couple months back and it has helped across the board. Still not 100% shake free though, but....that might be asking for too much from my 15 year old car. It's certainly tolerable, at least to me.

[ukaccord92]

if its auto may be the kick down cable need adjusting or the tranny fuel is low ;

[Accordlx]

my has da same exact problem for year..but cant find a way to fix it