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Old 01-20-2008, 10:48 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Vibration When Braking.. Out of Round Feel In Brake Pedal??

Interesting thought here..... you haven't had the wheel off, and the dealer hasn't, but it very easily could have happened when they put the wheels on. All you need is one joker to torque a lug wrong when putting on your wheels at assembly (or if they put the nice wheels on at the port or at the dealership).

A good lesson is to always hand torque your lugs with a torque wrench right to factory specs. I've seen a few clowns at the dealership put on accessories with an impact wrench and totally spin things down way too hard. I was reading here that some guys have had problems with the roof rack being too tight. Chances are somebody along the line did the same thing with your wheel. It was probably that way from day 1, you're just noticing it more and more as it gets more and more warped because of the expansion and contraction of braking.

I had a similar problem on a Mitsubishi. I swapped out the rotors on the front and always demanded that they hand torque the lugs on rotations and never had a problem again.
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