Steering wheel vibration under moderate braking

[Kneale Brownson]

Check that all the wheel bolts are torqued.

Try the "Italian tuneup" recommended for warped UFO rotors (You don't have
UFOs, but you could have warped rotors):  Several heavy stops from high
speed followed by enough driving without applying brakes at all until
they've cooled completely.  If that modulates the shaking when you use the
brakes afterward, remember to not sit at stoplights with the brakes applied
to just one spot on the rotors after you've heated them up in stop-and-go
traffic.  At lights with my UFOs, I either put the car in Neutral or leave
space ahead so I can creep forward every few seconds so the pads don't sit
on the same spot on the rotors.



At 02:41 PM 9/7/2006 -0700, Chris Thorp wrote:
>Patient is a '95 A6 quattro.  Under moderate to heavy braking, the  
>steering wheel shakes.  Heaver braking = more shaking.  After a  
>certain point though, very near locking the wheels up, the shaking  
>goes away.  It's been getting progressively worse for about 10,000  
>miles.  This just a simple warped rotor or is it something more  
>seriously wrong with the frontend?  Any ideas?