[jonegar]

This morning I took the car to a guy who is a professional mechanic but now has his own shop. We drove it and he noted the vibration. He put it up on the rack and checked everything front and back for wear or looseness. He poked, prodded, pryed, spun, and wiggled just about everything under there. He explained what the symptoms would be if this was failing, and that would do this if it were going out... Since the vibration is constant even if the car is put into neutral and coasts, he said that basically eliminated the power train - to a point. He did note the amount of weight applied to one of the rear wheels. There were weights inside and out at the same location on one of the rims. So, I'm headed to a different tire shop to have the tires balanced on a different machine to see if they put weights in the same location. The thought is that I may have an out-of-round rim. I probed the mrs. for an instance that she may have hit something in the last couple of months and "she couldn't say for sure". Life continues...