When I first bought my car it had a little bit of a shake in the front end but mainly only around curves...Well, I was pulling into a gas station that I had never been to and there was a puddle that looked small but when I hit it, it was a huge pothole and it hit really hard on the passenger side. Since then, the car shakes really bad going around right curves and sometimes slightly when the car is going straight but not all the time. Also, about a week after I hit the pothole I was in Mississippi visiting a friend and while we were driving down the road one of the brake caliber bracket bolts fell out and the wheel locked up. The car still shakes really bad even after replacing that bolt and making sure all the others were tight on the car. I have had a mechanic at a dealership that my friend works at look at it since and they tried aligning it and rotating and balancing the tires but nothing worked. They also said nothing was visibly wrong with it. People keep telling me it is probably the CV Joint but if the CV Joint was going out wouldn't it pop when turning the wheel too far? I have also heard that it may be the hub assembly...I'm just really at a loss...Any help would be appreciated...

 

to check the hub assembly put the car up on jack stands and grab hold of the wheel at the top and bottom and rock back and forth and then at the two sides and again rock back and forth, if there is any play you need a new wheel bearing.

The shaking could be related to the inner cv joint inside the axle, mine recently went through a sever shudder at 40 miles per hour and up but would disappear upon letting off the gas and it was the inner cv joint that was bad

 

It ended up being the CV Axels and my wheel bearings...