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steering wheel vibration help!

Ever since the accident, the steering wheel will vibrate alot going 65+mph. It gets worse the faster you go, and there was nothing before (I could go to 90mph without vibration). So here's what I've done so far...also I have lowering springs and camber kit.

--had honda check suspension, said it was fine
--balanced wheels, said two were off
--fixed rear sway bar

Now the vibration is still there. I'm gonna get an alignment check again, even tho I just got one right before the accident. I don't know what else it could be. Someone said the tires might have a bald spot from when I smashed the brakes, or the shocks might be going out and making the wheel bounce. Please help I can't drive the car like this!
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try rotating the tires front to back.. if it still vibrates, yeah it might be the alignment
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did you rotate tires regularly before?

my gf had a similar problem. she hadn't rotated her tires in about 10k miles. she had 2 that were bad, and 2 that were pretty new. but since she didn't rotate, she got what is called chopping on her tires. i thought it was BS so i went to the garage and looked. basically, the tread on the "good" tires was uneven. inside, outside, everywhere, the wear pattern was horrible. so we had to replace all 4 tires because of the point it had gotten to. run your hand across the tires and see if you feel differences in wear. i wish i had pictures, there was like a 1/8 inch difference in tread between 2 spots that were maybe 2 inchs apart.

i don't think alignment is going to make the car vibrate. if it did, it'd start much sooner than 65mph.
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They could have done a bad balance. Thats what usually happens. They dont balance it right. Might want to look into that again as well
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Ya if they did...I'm going back to sam's club for another refund. I bet they did. I'm taking it to a REAL repair shop to have everything checked.
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