Steering wheel is shaking like mad when I’m driving under thirty miles an hour

My steering wheel is shaking like mad when I’m driving under thirty miles an hour. It gets a little better when I go faster, but it’s driving me nuts. What should I check first?”

Well, the first thing to check is the two front tires. Jack up the car and spin the tires. Odds are you’ve got a bad tire–either with bald sports or out of round parts. Spin the tires and see if they are perfectly round, or have lumps in them. If they have lumps or are going bald, replace them. A really wobbly steering wheel at low speeds is almost always a bad tire or bent tire rim from hitting curbs and such. High speed wobbles can be lots of things, from unballanced tires to worn front end parts. BUT low speed wobbles are almost always just bad tires and or rims. Low speed wobbles are the easiest to repair because the cause is such a large problem that it’s hard to miss when you look.