I took my car to get the suspension looked at before I made a road trip, and the guys said everything looked fine, cept my steering box was loose and needed to be replaced. A few days later, however, I found that my CV axles were almost shot, and when I replaced them, I noticed all my bushings were going to crap too.

I had bought used tires for the front (shut up, im a poor college kid), and come to find out, they had flat spots, and at certain speeds (45-55) it would sometimes start to shake back and forth violently, and wouldnt stop til i hit the brakes. When I inspected the tires, the spots werent real bad, but just to be safe, I rotated the tires, and the problem went away....or so I thought. Now it rides fine at those speeds, but around 65 and 70, when I hit a rouch spot in the interstate, it does it again. I might add that my steering has about 2 inches of deadness (from what I measured from TDC on the steering wheel, it moved about an inch to either side before the wheels themselves started to turn). So is this the problem? If so, how hard/expensive is it to replace?

Thanks!

-Ed