96 850 Turbo - Mysterious front-end shimmy solved. Topic is solved

[bugs11]

For the past month or so the front end would slightly shimmy at times and sometimes it wouldn't. Sometimes it would be just a hint of a bobble, other times it was obvious. I thought one of the front tires might be wearing out of round and was planning on rotating the tires, see if that took care of it.
Well when I was checking the air in the tires last week-end I noticed a very slight bulge in the right front tire sidewall. I drove to the county oil recycle collection place (returned a years worth of used oil), no detectable shimmy, when I got there I checked the tire and the bulge in the side wall was larger. Drove home and the car developed a slight shimmy.

Made an appointment for a new tire. The tire had road hazard insurance, so I ended up only paying 25% of the price of new tire.
And now no shimmy, just a nice smooth ride. The tire guy said the side wall was damaged by hitting a curb or more likely a pothole, could of been weeks ago or months ago. He likened it to bruise in the sidewall that never heals, just gets worse and worse over time.

[dyn blin]

Thanks for posting. Sometimes the simplest causes are overlooked. I know I might have missed that working in my garage on ramps.