So, have you heard of the “death wobble“?
I was in a pretty isolated area in a snow storm, driving through on an interstate, not too many people on the road just a couple of cars around me, and I hit a bump going about 50, and all of a sudden that wrangler started to shake and shimmy like a ****ed off rodeo bull.
The steering wheel was shaking like crazy, the car was vibrating and shaking, like a blender, so much so that it became hard to control, I had to slow down, and after about 5 to 10 seconds it stopped. So now I got the car back under control, still driving in the snow storm, and thinking to myself do I pull this over? For a few seconds, I thought I had a flat, so I’m getting ready to pull off, but the car is driving. Normally now, not the thump, thump thump you would hear with a flat, and I’ve had flats before, like most people have, I know what they sound, and feel like.
So I pull over real quick, it’s freezing outside, because I thought maybe one of the wheels was loose, that’s the only thing I could figure out that was happening, unless the axle was about to break off. So I checked the tires, and they were solid, none of them were loose, because I thought for a second, there was one tire a couple of tires that were wobbling off ready to go flying off
It was a rental, but I do have AAA and I’m thinking to myself. Should I call somebody that shlt seems so dangerous. I had about another 45 minutes to drive, so I said fūck it I’m going. Getting the car checked out who knows how long I would’ve been there minimum 2-3 hours before somebody came, in the middle of a practically a blizzard, so you know getting somebody out there would’ve been an all night affair possibly. So I said fūck it I’m going - it happened two or three more times again. Every time I hit a bump on the road going over about 50 or 60 at this point I would just tighten up and control the car a little better because I knew what to expect.
So anyway, when I finally get back to the hotel, I start googling and that’s a known thing with jeep wranglers, it’s called the “death wobble“. Have you ever heard of anything like this before?
