A shimmy is a condition where the sterring wheel has a shake side to side and can be very pronounced at a certain speeds yet seem to disappear at others. It is generaly caused by a bad tire or an out of balance condition. The first thing to do is to take off the front wheels and run your hand over the inside and outside sidewalls. Feel for lumps, bumps, and bulges. This could be a sign of the layers delaminating. Next feel the tread, it should be smooth, not bumpy. Remove any stones or glass or metal. Look the tire over for anything that doesn't look right. Check the surface on the rim and the surface on the rotor for any dirt or rust that would prevent the rim from seating properly. Remount the wheel on the car alternating the torque. Check for "runout" that is the rim should rotate without moving in and out. If these things do not help then have the tires balanced in a dynamic balancing machine. Static balancing is not accurate enough for modern cars. Also check for looseness in the steering, there should be no play in the tie rod ends. Any looseness will exaggerate an out of balance condition. A shaking in your "gut" when driving is usually caused by an out of balance condition in the rear and generally peaks at a particular road speed. Again check the tires for delaminations and the rim for runout. Sometimes wheel weights do fall off so it could just be an out of balance problem. Whenever you have a tire repaired it should be rebalanced. Sometimes the only way to definitively isolate a problem is to substitute a known good tire and see if the problem goes away. Always keep the right air pressures in your tires, it is the single most important owner maintaince procedure followed by checking the motor oil and anti-freeze. Try to find the local shop that does police cars or ambulances. It should be a modern machine used by someone who has been doing alignments for some time and knows the machine and how to use it.It must be a "4" wheel machine because they must measure the "thrust angle" or the alignment of the rear tires. You may have to provide them with the specs, not all machines have Deloreans in their database but just about all machines can have special cars added manually. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, dandollars@xxxx wrote: > Hello, > I own VIN 6391 and I have the shimmy in the wheel but no alignment problem. > Dos this relate to the posting in DML 325? And can I take the delorean in to > just any place that aligns and get someone who knows what they are doing? > Dan > 6391