This thread is related to my "wife hit a curb and FIL dropped van off jack" debacle which I posted about some time ago . But this is more mechanical in nature, so figured I'd post here. Cliff notes: Wife hit a curb and punctured a tire, father in law dropped van of the temp jack while attempting to change said tire. That's it in a nutshell. I drove the van home on the spare and it drove like before.
We stopped driving the van until I could get 4 new tires installed/balanced and an alignment. Took it in, alignment was out a little bit according to the printout (nothing major) and corrected.
Now that we have the van back, there's a rumbling/shudder while braking, most noticeable at low speeds. I feel it mostly in the front of the van, seems to be more toward driver's side but difficult to tell. It's not the characteristic warped rotor feel which usually manifests itself at higher speeds and is more of a pulsing. This current sensation is most noticeable under 30mph or so while coming to a stop, only during braking, seems to ride and drive fine otherwise.
I was suspicious of the front drivers wheel/tire, which had more weights put on (about 4oz) than the others to balance, so I swapped it to the passenger rear. That doesn't seem to have changed anything best as I can tell. I had the van on the lift and after a good look over everything, I don't see anything amiss. I've checked tire pressure and lug nut torque all around, all is good there.
I'm rather stumped what else to check or how to proceed from here. Only two things have changed-- new tires and alignment. Bent rim crossed my mind, but surely that would have been immediately apparent when they balanced the new tires? If anyone has any ideas I haven't thought of, I'd sure like to hear them.
We stopped driving the van until I could get 4 new tires installed/balanced and an alignment. Took it in, alignment was out a little bit according to the printout (nothing major) and corrected.
Now that we have the van back, there's a rumbling/shudder while braking, most noticeable at low speeds. I feel it mostly in the front of the van, seems to be more toward driver's side but difficult to tell. It's not the characteristic warped rotor feel which usually manifests itself at higher speeds and is more of a pulsing. This current sensation is most noticeable under 30mph or so while coming to a stop, only during braking, seems to ride and drive fine otherwise.
I was suspicious of the front drivers wheel/tire, which had more weights put on (about 4oz) than the others to balance, so I swapped it to the passenger rear. That doesn't seem to have changed anything best as I can tell. I had the van on the lift and after a good look over everything, I don't see anything amiss. I've checked tire pressure and lug nut torque all around, all is good there.
I'm rather stumped what else to check or how to proceed from here. Only two things have changed-- new tires and alignment. Bent rim crossed my mind, but surely that would have been immediately apparent when they balanced the new tires? If anyone has any ideas I haven't thought of, I'd sure like to hear them.