steering shaking...

[Monastie]

when i start the car and its cold outside and i turn the wheel its shaky and feels unstable... thats without having the car move.

any ideas on why that is?

[Monastie]

oh ya and after having the car run for like 10-30 seconds it dosent do it anymore

[dennyg]

When I first bought my car it also had some wierd vibrations mostly in the seat but steering wheel a little too. I replaced motor mounts and transmission mounts. That cured it.

[Ross]

Flush the power steering fluid and be sure the belt is tight

[ILoveMPower]

Your power steering has to warm up

edit: I was always under the assumption it puts a lot of strain on the power steering pump when you turn the wheel without at least slightly rolling.

[BillionPa]

if your fluid is CHF11s, its contaminated.
if its ATF, get a better ATF like Redline D4 that operates at very low temps.

[Monastie]

oh... i had refilled the liquid recently, maybe it was CHF11, and i contaminated it?

i used D4

[BillionPa]

D4 and 11s are not compatible, if they mixed bad things are happening

[Monastie]

D4 and 11s are not compatible, if they mixed bad things are happening

flushing it tomorow...

what kinda bad things though?

[BillionPa]

it creates a wax solid particulate that clogs the oil passages