Steering Vibrating/shaking Violently At Low Speeds

[darkchild101]

The steering on my 2001 2.5 diesel vibrates/shakes so much you can see my hands moving along with it. Strangely enough the problemis at its worst at low speeds and the faster I go the handling improves. The car shakes or should I say wobbles when negotiating corners or bends. Its far worse than the vibration you get with wheel balance problem. Feels like the wheels are about to come off

 

Help please

[Udtrev]

I presume you have checked that the wheel nuts are all there, nice and tight ?

 

Any noises like the wheel bearings are dying ?

[greenthing]

Warped discs are a common problem

[QinteQ]

Vibrate not wobble sounds like your ABS / EBD was cutting in a self check occurs each time the vehicle is started and accelerated past approximately 15 mph - so do you get an ABS light warning http://www.youfixcars.com/images/ford-abs-light.jpg ?. Wobble would be warped disks, worn bushes, even tyre pressures, and a tyre 'bleb'.