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#1 of 5 Jeep wheel wobble by walleye6 May 31, 2009 (4:10 pm)
Has anyone ever experienced an uncontrollable wheel wobble after they have hit a pot hole while driving on the highway at a high rate of speed and had to pull over and stop to gain control of the vehicle? Replies to this message: wobbleripoff (Jun 24, 2009 7:46 pm) steve_ (Jul 20, 2009 3:59 pm)
#2 of 5 Engine Shimmy above 50pmh by engelatnona May 31, 2009 (5:05 pm)
I have a 97 Wrangler and it only has 10K miles. Recently it drives fine up to around 45-50mph when it goes into a crazy shaking sensation that feels like one of the engine mounts has snapped (it hasn't since I had it checked). Not sure what this is and once it starts the engine decelerates until I downshift to 3rd and it can then climb back to 45 or so. Any ideas?? Replies to this message: llexor1973 (Jun 07, 2009 6:22 am)
#3 of 5 Re: Engine Shimmy above 50pmh [engelatnona] by llexor1973 Jun 07, 2009 (6:22 am)
Replying to: engelatnona (May 31, 2009 5:05 pm) I have experienced similiar issues with my 05 wrangler. at 52 mph it begins shimming and by 55 it stops. this is caused by chauking of the front tires. with jeeps you MUST rotate tires every 5k miles.
#4 of 5 Re: Jeep wheel wobble [walleye6] by wobbleripoff Jun 24, 2009 (7:46 pm)
Replying to: walleye6 (May 31, 2009 4:10 pm) hey I own a 07 4 door jeep wrangler, I have not got a wobble, but an earthquake in my vehicle. wheels shake, steering wheel vibrates purfusely, vehicles front end hops off the ground and the vehicle shimmeys off the road while doing all of these things. has been brought back to dealer 10 times but they wont admit there is a problem with the vehicle. It never happens when they test drive the jeep, sooo made a video of what happens and they still wont do anything. this past week i took it to another dealer and they changed the steering damper and say its fixed. I pick it up tomorrow we will see but if you saw what happens to this jeep you would be shocked. Good luck to all who have a jeep im getting rid of this vehicle soon as I can.
#5 of 5 Re: Jeep wheel wobble [walleye6] by steve_ HOST Jul 20, 2009 (3:59 pm)
Replying to: walleye6 (May 31, 2009 4:10 pm) There are a lot of posts here about this issue (Jeep owners call it "death wobble"). Check the other Wrangler maintenance discussions or search for it.   Here's what one owner did with his TJ.   This forum post is a good one too.

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