Struggled with the steering wheel shake throughout ownership of this high mileage vehicle. Generally, road force balancing addresses it. Most recently watched a set of OEM Dunlops with half life left on the tread, suddenly deteriorate into shakes which eventually turned into death wobble on medium braking from 60+ mph on down. My knowledgeable local mech put it up on the rack and found the inner tie rods to have a bit of play. Tires had about 5K to 7K left on them and wife was going on a 2.5K mile road trip, so it got new Cooper AT3s with new TPMS senders and road force balancing. That took out all the wobble and virtually all the steering wheel shake. New inner tire rods and alignment when she returned and that eliminated any remaining shake or looseness in the steering. I believe that the shakes over time wear out the front end, tie rods in particular, which exacerbates the problem. But I did say it was a high mileage vehicle….

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