Q: rear tires move in a up and down motion.

asked by on February 20, 2016

change rear brakes and rotors , when i move the car a few feet it feels like i ran over a bump kind goes up then back down for another few feet but not really bad,what could i have forgot to do or done wrong ?

My car has 100000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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