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Wobbly steering wheel?

Last december I got a car which has been stored in a garage for about 5 years, but it's been taken out now and then to make it run a little. When I bought it the steering wheel was very wobbly, so I got some new tires. When I got the tires on the tire repairer told me the rims were pretty bent. So after a couple of months I got some new rims as well. After I got the new rims the steering wheel still was a very little bit wobbly sometimes. Of course I did a wheel alignment as well.I just had a job done which required a cv joint to be removed, and I went for a drive. The steering wheel again is very wobbly at about 100kph, and SOMETIMES it wobbles very badly when braking. I'll probably do another wheel alignment, but what am I looking for exactly? Are the wheel bearings gone?

Answer:

Bad wheel bearings will make aroar" that you can't miss. Take your car to it's new car dealership to have all the front suspension parts checked. Wish you had listed the year make and model of the car. We then could have listed problem arias which you could check. One thing people seem to over-look are worn out lower A-frame bushings where it connects to the front sub-frame. A car should never be aligned when it has loose front or rear suspension parts!
You have stated that after the CV removal job the steering is, to you again wobbly. To me I would check that the lug nuts are tight and go back to the shop that had it last, they did something wrong and need to repair it. You need to stop thinking it is the same old thing, it didn't do it before the work but does after, that's not right.
Wheel bearing usually make a wooing sound but not much in the way of wheel shake. Have the new wheels been balanced? I assume they have, but worth checking as this can make the wheel vibrate at lot at higher speeds and is inexpensive to have done. Other than that, it might be a CV joint or suspension component, maybe a ball joint or even potentially warped brake discs or sticking brake callipers.

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