Maybe one of the wheels is damaged. I would try putting the spare on and trying to see which wheel is causing the shaking.You say the wheels have been balanced but its not uncommon for damaged wheels to be OK on a Balancing machine.
It wont cost you anything either.
You could also check the wheel bearings as you try this.
Good Luck
Steve
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The worn shocks thing is also interesting, cos when i'm brake lightly and just coming to a halt i hear a creak from the rear of the car wheels i think. also quite often over small bumps in the road.
Is that related to how fast you going because my steering wheel certainly doesn't shake under 60, and again when over 60 and going round a bend it pretty much stops.
Or could the creak be the wheel bearings, but when i read the haynes manual it said the wheel bearings should last the life of the car, and my miles are motorway miles.
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Andy,
From memory, car wheel bearings are designed with a b10 life of 250000 motorway miles...b10 means that 90% of bearings will exceed this.
Could you jack up each wheel and rotate by hand? Any feel rougher than others?
Regards,
Matt35
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Andy
The reason that your steering shakes at 60mph is because your front suspension's natural frequency is around this speed. Something is causing a vibration whatever speed you are doing but it just goes mental when it reaches it's natural frequency, a couple of mph either side and it will calm down. It doesn't solve your problem I know but it might trigger a thought somewhere!!
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no its not the natural frequency cos it starts to shake at 60 and gets worse (vibrates more) the higher speed, ie. emm... 75
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Finally then, i'm at work and the cars in a local garage today
One fianl thing i noticed over the weekend, it doesn't seem to come on till 70, and only once the car has been warmed up a bit.
Again when turning the wheel 1/8 round a corner at 70 it reduces the vibration quite a lot, but hard to say whether it stops or not.
Again i have got that "creak" towards the rear of the car at coming to a hault and going slowly over bumps in the road.
so any final thoughts, because knowing the garage they won't be able to find anything!
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A peugeot? I have had 3 Peugeot cars, plus loads of Peugeot courtesy cars and 1 brand new last year. Even my brand new 106 had wheel shaking problems, being returned to the main dealer at least 4 times in the short time I had it. My older 106 diesel was never right, no matter how many times different garages balanced the wheels. Also my 1st Peugeot (a 405 GRi) also suffered from the same problems? Could this be a Peugeot related problem? I have a Laguna now, and there is no shake at all, at any speed. Strange?
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