Vibration at 40mph when braking

twsiv

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I'm getting an aggressive vibration at 40mph when braking, vibration goes away below 38mph or so, noticed mostly when exiting the freeway where I'm doing 60-70mph. Any ideas, or test I can perform to narrow in on the culprit?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
 

03EXCURS

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IF IT ONLY DOES IT WHEN YOU BRAKE I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE A CALIPER GRABBING. THIS COULD POSSIBLY BE FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS.

1 ABS SENSOR
2 HOT SPOTS ON THE ROTOR/ OR WARPED
3 BAD CALPIER

I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU TAKE IT TO JUST BRAKES AND HAVE THEM CHECK IT OUT. IT FREE GOOD LUCK
 

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i have seen wheel bearings do things like that, wouldnt hurt to check them. its probably a rotor issue, i have a small rust stripe on my front rotors that make terrible things happen when they align with each other and im on the brake pedal.
 

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Wheel weights?

To eliminate possible missing wheel weights can you swing by your tire shop to get the the set of 4 tires balanced and/or rotated?

Couple weeks back our X started experiencing out of the blue a wheel vibration issue at 40+ mph,I ran it to discount and they found the weight strip missing from the front right wheel:doh: probably due to the warmer weather combined with Plano's prehistoric rough concrete jointed roads knocked em off:rant

My .02;)

PS: make sure the wheel nuts get torqued to 165 ft lbs.
 

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