Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxp!ccs From: ccs@aluxp.UUCP (shiflett c c) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Minor Toyota Camry Problems Message-ID: <198@aluxp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 08:04:40 EST Article-I.D.: aluxp.198 Posted: Wed Jan 9 08:04:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 04:43:42 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 39 *** 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.