Car shakes

Hey, i am a newbie with my 2004 eclipse gt. My main problem is when i got fast say 180 and hit the brakes to slow down, soft or hard, the car starts shaking. I did the wheel alignment, brought tires, but it styl shakes? is it my brakes? help me out here please?  i was thinking it may be my CV boot.

Hold on...How Fast?

You have some warped rotors. You didnt take good care of them out of the box did you?
 
Get yourself some performance rotors... follow the rotor break in proceedure and they will NEVER EVER warp

say from 120 to 160km, mostly on the highway.
 
I have just purchased this vehicle, i guess its because it was a salvage? thanks for the help, ill go check out rotors and see if dats the problem, any suggestions on how much theyll cost?

So you bought the car on a salvage title?
 
All rotors have different prices.

yes i bought it on salvage title, got it to rebuilt. bought it for 5g canadian but fixing it was a pain in the a**. came up to 17g in total with airbags etc.
I was going to ask you. on the ownership it says gts and when i checked the vin number it also said gts at www.carfax.com but the car says gt, how do i check if its gt or gts

Um... i really wouldnt know. Man thats some ****ed up ****

ye I know. if only there was a physical way of checking if its a gts or a gt, i'd be happy. how does that happen. damnnn

I dont know dude..
 
All i know is that you have wasted an incredible amount of money. The car has basically ZERO resale value

really? that just took my passion towards my car. if i was to sell it how much do u think i can sell a once salvaged vehicle, pretty sure its more then how much i fixed it for? oh well i guess i messed up. but atleast it gets alot of attention down here in toronto.

First off if YOU love the car what does resale value mean to you anyways?  Unless you plan on selling it?  Second I'm not sure exactly what the currency translates to these days but it does sound like you spent a bit more than necessary to rebuild it.  The shaking is likely the rotors BUT also check your tire pressures as it WILL have an effect (believe it or not) on the shaking.  Quite frankly, if you've rebuilt the car, salvage title or not, it's yours and I'd be proud of it and drive it till it was dead (Longest I've owned a car... 5 years...  most of that sitting in a yard here or there).

What the hell? I wasnt calling him an idiot for doing what he did... he did what he wanted to do fair enough. I just thought he deserved to know.

ye i guess your right, its good to know i got a dump car and made it into a beauty. should i leave the tire pressure on standard 32psi. or should i lower it. the max is 35 psi on a 215 50 17 tire 91v

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ORIGINAL: Sebba

I dont know dude..

All i know is that you have wasted an incredible amount of money. The car has basically ZERO resale value

 
What would YOU think if someone made a comment like that to you?  Now enough of this Sebba. 
 
 
As for tire pressure, look on the inside of the driver's door.  There will be a listing of required tire pressures.  THAT is what it needs to be!  I had my tires changed and they put all of mine at around 40 PSI.  My car requires 27 PSI!  I shook like mad when accelerating as well as when stopping.  Corrected tire pressure and it went away.

serious lol, ill do that right away.. thanks mate. i just need to ask u one more question i was asking sebba about it. in the ownership my car says gts and when i put in the vin number on www.carfax.com it also said gts but my car says gt. how can i verify if my car is a gt or gts? mainly by looking at it

Look in the FAQ section I think there is a writeup of the designations of the different letters (RS, GS, GS-T, GSX, and whatnot).  I didn't know they made a GT or GTS so I'm not sure myself.  I'm going to look in the FAQ minisection myself to find out as well.  K I did (Thus the edit of the post).  Here's the link. http://www.mitsubishiforum.com/m_106049/tm.htm Now just for future reference try searching the site before asking things as most common problems have been asked quite a few times.  You may think your problem is unique but there's always someone out there that has had it.  If you can't find an answer by searching the site (VIA search link located up there ^ ) then post and we'll be more than happy to help you out.

alright ill give it a look, if you find out let me know plz

Edited my post

thanks you, ill do that from now on. sorry new forums
 
btw the site you provided me is for 1st and 2nd gen eclipse not the 3rd gen

S'all right that's why I'm not an @$$hole the first time someone does it.  They continue to do it thought and I'll flame the SHYT outta 'em

lol ite , hey i dun't no if u got my last msg but the site u gave me says its for 1st and 2nd gen eclipses mines is 3rd gen

Ooooo good point...  Looks like time to do some more web searching and make an addendum to that write-up...

if the carfax says gts then its a gts. And sebba in total he only spent 18k if my calculations are correct

Thats alot dude.....

Yeah but he has a fully repaired car with likely low miles (It's only an '04) AND a full custom paintjob.  I don't think he's too bad off.