My steering wheel shakes at certain times while I am driving is this because my car is cooling down. It's an MCS 2008.

 

Usually a shake or 'shimmy' in the steering wheel is due to warped rotors or an out of balance wheel. Temperature is not usually a determining factor.
Does it shake when you hit the brakes? When driving down any particular, or particular type of road?

 

It doesn't occur when I'm braking or on any road it happens when I hear a noise. (I think it is the turbos winding down)

 

mine just started doing it when i first drive the car after sitting a few hours. i left my buddy's house and the steering wheel shook like nuts.

i checked my tire pressure had someone watch me wheels as i drove back/forth but nothing to discern. especially worse when you accelerate.

weird part is it stops and smoothes out after 10minutes of driving. its freakish cold here recently? anything with that??? cant be temp related.

I'm scratching my head on what this means. gotta bring it in for service anyway so thank god its under warranty. hope they figure it out.

-M

 

In freezing weather, it's possible for snow or ice to accumulate on the inside of the wheels while driving. When you stop, some of it can melt. What's left may not be evenly distributed around the wheel, which unbalances the wheel.

This happened to me on several occasions when I lived in Colorado. Cleaning the snow/ice/frozen mud from inside the wheels always fixed the problem.

 

im in NC so no snow or ice in miles and miles. when i said freakish cold i should have specified its down around 32-37f from our normal southern 45-55f winters.

the S is in for service and their telling me i should replace the front tires because the belts are broken and the tires are cupping the backside of the wheels causing the violent shaking of the steering . i'm still scratching my head on this, but the tread was running quite low and i needed to get new runflats soon anyway.

will order a new pair of shoes and do a balancing and see how things go from there.

 

mine does to, no worries