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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:03 PM
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when im goin do the highway and hit the sped of 60-65 my car seems to shack..

does anyone elses shack?

maybe its just me
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:10 PM
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Maybe it's the Love Shack!
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:17 PM
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Say what now?
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:17 PM
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Maybe it's a Shaq Attack.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:21 PM
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You're the first person ever to have this problem. That's why no one knows what you're talking about.

Well, that's part of the reason. The other is that you can't spell or punctuate for ****.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:26 PM
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65mph shimmy. Get yo tires balanced. Go read about it on miata.net.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:51 PM
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 11:03 PM
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what a ******* retard.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 11:05 PM
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This made me lol.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 11:18 PM
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My car -shakes- around 85. Needs an alignment and balanced tires.
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 11:21 PM
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this thread is shaqtastic
Old Mar 18, 2009 | 11:43 PM
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1.8,
Are you ******* serious? Shack? I know this is the internet and all, but come on man, how about "shake"... as in shake, rattle, and roll?

A "shack" is like a fishing shack... or a love shack.

And yes, the famous Miata "shimmy" is what it's called. Go to miata.net and do a title seach for "shimmy" in the NA and NB main forums. There are literally hundreds of threads about it, and how to fix it.
Old Mar 19, 2009 | 12:19 AM
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****** shack attack lolz
Old Mar 19, 2009 | 12:22 AM
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 01:21 AM
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******* LMAO, the B52's. He also drives an '06 Chevy Mailbu. I hope for this guys sake english is a second language for him, or else the bashing is needed.
Old Mar 19, 2009 | 08:00 AM
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srry for the spelling my english is not the best...i did mean shake
Old Mar 19, 2009 | 09:16 AM
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"shaq attack" lol!

this thread made my morning!
Old Mar 19, 2009 | 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by 1.8-m
srry for the spelling my english is not the best...i did mean shake
If you filled out your location in your profile we would know where you are and would probably understand why your english is so bad.
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 09:35 AM
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My car used to shack too. Then I watched Kazaam. It was bad enough that I lit my car on fire with the movie in it. My car no longer shacks.

Old Mar 19, 2009 | 09:49 AM
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my old car shacked really badly....but it had started after i had a drifting accident with a curb. after putting on new rims and tires and balancing and blah blah........so i just sold it to some kid and bought a newer miata.



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