ccs@aluxp.UUCP (shiflett c c) (01/09/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE!! *** I have a 1983 Toyota Camry with 35,000 mi. In general I am quite pleased with the car. There are three minor problems that I wonder if anyone has comments or solutions: 1. Even though the car has power steering, there is a slight shimmy that comes through the steering wheel. I have had several cars with power steering, and this is the first on which motion of the front wheels is fed-back to the steering wheel. I am annoyed with the slight shake in the steering wheel; I don't feel anything wrong with the ride. The only thing I have found to date that helps is to spin balance the front wheels; that helps but does not completely cure the problem. 2. When I brake lightly, I feel an unevenness in the braking action with each revolution of the wheels, and the shimmy of Item 1 is slightly worse. This problem is essentially unchanged in magnitude over 35,000 miles. When I brake hard, the problem disappears. 3. There is a slight whistle or high pitch vibration when the car is driven at a constant speed. It sounds a little like a wind whistle, but either accelerating or decelerating stops the noise. I think it may be coming from the carburator (or whatever the equivalent part on a fuel injected engine is called. Incidentally, I also had a wind whistle which was coming from the left front of the car. The dealer could not find it after 4 tries. I isolated the area by progressively taping more and more of the seams and openings with masking tape until I stopped the whistle. Even then the dealer could not fix it and stuffed a rag in the front around the headlight. I recently found out from a friend that Toyota has a recent fix (which the dealer never told me about). It consists of putting a piece of plastic rope in a seam between the left front finder and the piece below it. The dealer now has fixed this problem. Curt Shiflett AT&T Bell Labs Allentown, PA.