02-09-2024, 09:52 PM | #1 |
Drives: 2011 Camaro 2LT RS, 42,000mi Join Date: Jan 2024
Location: New Hampshire, USA
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Shaking at specific speeds and burning smell
Hello all,
My 2011 LT RS has lately been shaking a bit while I'm driving. It gets so strong the steering wheel also shakes in the 35-50mph and 65-80mph ranges. The specific speed that I feel the shaking the most changes within those ranges every day. Also, before I noticed the shaking, I noticed an occasional very strong burning smell that seems to come and go whenever it wants and I can't identify where it's coming from. Sent to Firestone for wheel alignment, rotation, and balancing. Sent to another shop who said all they saw was cupped tires and a botched alignment job. Shaking and burning smell persists. List of symptoms: -Shaking, strongest at random speeds between 35-50mph and 65-80mph in all gears. -Occasionally a very strong burning smell. -Faint, brief squealing sound under hard acceleration between gears 1-3. Any ideas? Thanks! |
02-10-2024, 05:55 AM | #2 |
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Shaking can be drive shaft or CV axle.
Cupped tires ? Can be tire frame failure,how old are tires ? |
02-10-2024, 06:04 AM | #3 |
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Cupped tires will absolutely cause shaking, usually a sign of worn out struts or tires way out of balance. If your alignments is bad enough you can scrub the tires and smell burning rubber-should be obvious looking at the tire wear. Have you hit a curb or pothole recently. I would suspect bent or worn suspension-a shop should have refused to attempt to align the car without replacing the tires and finding the damaged part. I would deem the car unsafe to drive anywhere but to a repair shop until its fixed.
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02-10-2024, 06:57 PM | #4 |
Drives: 2011 Camaro 2LT RS, 42,000mi Join Date: Jan 2024
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Not sure how old the tires are, got the car 6 months ago with them already on it and they're definitely not originals.
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02-10-2024, 07:03 PM | #5 | |
Drives: 2011 Camaro 2LT RS, 42,000mi Join Date: Jan 2024
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03-07-2024, 11:10 AM | #6 |
If you haven't already found the problem, I would have the brakes checked, the symptoms you describe sound exactly like stuck brake caliper/piston.
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03-07-2024, 02:47 PM | #7 | |
It don’t come easy.
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Went through this with another vehicle some years back. Look at the rotors and see if bluing is occurring.
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03-08-2024, 06:30 PM | #8 |
Steering Wheel shaking indicates a imbalance condition in the drivetrain. Most likely Tire/Wheel Imbalance (lost a wheel weight?), warped Rotors, or alignment way out of spec.
Key input is you 'nudged a snowbank". So you nudged your suspension, T/W, or Alignment enough to start the vibration . |
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03-08-2024, 09:09 PM | #9 |
Drives: IOM 2013 2SS/RS, Greenie, 06 FXSTBi Join Date: Apr 2009
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Could have ice in the barrel of the wheel.
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burning, shaking, smell, vibration |
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