So I would love to hear anyone thoughts on why my steering wheel shimmys like it does. Its intermittent. Though it seems to occur most around 80ish +/-. The tires are fairly new. I just had them rebalanced and rotated. It seemed to solve it briefly but maybe that was just me hoping. I have tried to see if its the lines in the road or the condition of the road that makes it happen. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of correlation, once it seems I have found it, something debunks it. I am thinking maybe new struts I have Monroe's on the ones for the echo. wheel bearings? This is the second set of tires on these rims. Ideas?

 

i have the same issue dude, i can't find what it is! what size of tires/wheels do you have??

 

its most likely balancing issues. most aftermarket rims use sticky weights and those sometimes shift slightly or fall off altogether making perfectly balanced wheels all of a sudden have shimmy

or it may be just the tires. tires have heavy spots when they are made, thats why you need balancing. the weights counteract the heavy spot when they rotate.

your rims may be slightly bent and out of round.
also the tires themselves may be out of round. ask for a road force balance next time. that will tell you if the tires are bad.

 

I was running on 16x7 Rota Grids for awhile with this problem, thought the same things, bad roads, bad tires, bad wheels... couldn't figure it out, then started breaking wheel studs. Switched back to the steelies and all the problems went away. Have you tried switching back to make sure it wasn't something other than wheels/tires?

 

This problem never occurred with my first set of tires, I had Pilot exalto PE. I now have BFGs I forget the model but these are All seasons unlike my last, these were so much quieter compared to the exaltos but would grab the lines in the road a lot in the begginning. Not so much now, unless that is that shimmy I am feeling but the shimmy is not always when there are lines in the road. 205/50/15 are what I am running. I guess I could try to get a road force balance, I just had them rebalanced. Thinking that I am getting some type of resonance from warn out struts. They are bottoming out a lot easier now I notice.

 

How many miles you got on your xb?I also had the same kind of issue my car feels like its allways windy out.Sometime's it feels like all my tires want to go diffrent ways and feels wobbly.I had soem toyo proxes and had no issues next is a allighment but have no funds to see if that is the issue