Shaking steering wheel

[Racelife]

I have an 01 Passat 1.8 T
I've replaced the two smaller mounts near the tran. and put in a new throttle body.
We can't figure out why the steering wheel is vibrating when in drive ir reverse when the brake is applied. At stop lights if you go of the wheel the thing looks like it could pop off the keys shake in the ignition and everything!
I've heard my rotors are warped, and heard i just need fuel injection cleaner... any help?
Jess

[Franco2112]

Had the same issue before and thought it was all that you stated. Ended up just needing new tires. Go figure! Go to Midas for a free estimate. Cheaper than dealer. Then go from there.

[ernielist]

My 07 shakes steering wheel shakes when in gear sometimes too. A good way to check to see if it is a motor mount is to turn all the accessories off and decrease the load on the engine, if the vibration decreases it is a good indication that your motor mounts are bad or going bad. I really dont see how tires could effect this at all lol. Plus you wont have vibration when your stopped if your rotors are warped, just when stopping.

[SC2ner]

Originally Posted by Franco2112

Had the same issue before and thought it was all that you stated. Ended up just needing new tires. Go figure! Go to Midas for a free estimate. Cheaper than dealer. Then go from there.

Dear god don't go to Midas. I cannot tell you how many horror stories I've heard from their customers. Those morons cannot get anything right. I've heard things from putting directional tires on backwards, to breaking wheel bolts and snapping studs. Their strip-out % is really high. lol

They even messed up my car when doing my exhaust. Typically, I do all of my own work, but I was eager to have it put on and I was in the middle of moving. I called Midas, that was my mistake.

Now comes their multiple mistakes: They put the wrong o2 sensor back in my car, they left my header touching my sub-frame, they did an awful welding job for the down-pipe to cat. On top of all of that; they mounted the exhaust wrong. They might as well hung the damn thing backwards. lol

[ernielist]

I really don't see how fuel injection cleaner is going to help you. If your car is shaking that bad there is some other porblem other than injectors. Plus if the injectors were that clogged your car would be running really lean and should trip a trouble code in the computer, which from your post you didn't mention any sooo, we are back to motor mounts as a possibility, maybe a pully that is bent or warped, but I doubt it, never heard of that.

Injection cleaner in my opinion is a real joke, even when you take it somewhere and they hook a bag of that crap up to the fuel rail and "clean" your injectors lol. If you really want to clean your injectors there are companies that you can send them off to and they will put them on a pressure bench and flow them to see the flow rate. Then they ultraosnically clean them and reflow them to see the difference. They also rebuild any parts in the injector that is rebuildable. There is a company that does this for $18.00 an injector, not a bad deal. I cannot think of the name of the company off the top of my head. Unless you have a bunch of miles on your car or you were running some really dirty gas thru your car I just don't see injector clogging as an issue. Let alone the lack of a trouble code. I think you have a mechanical issue. Also if you want to clean your own injectors you can buy an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner for like $60.00 bucks and use injector cleaner in it and clean them yourself. You just won't be able to flow test them.

[Racelife]

It's an engine problem, my tires are new i got them in May. We have looked further and noticed vacuums are unplugged....someone was out to get me obviously! We have fixed a few of them and the shaking is not as aggressive, but it is still shaking. So i'm pretty sure it's the vacuums. If that makes any sense at all?
Thanks for all the help!