About your car....
Danielle,
From what you described, vibration while braking, I believe your front brake rotors are warped. In case you don't know, the rotors are the discs behind the wheels that the brakes grab when you stop. Typically, on most new cars, these are only held on by the wheels. Sometimes when shops install tires, they will not tighten all of the lug nuts to the same torque, so some are tighter than others. This, along with the heating and cooling from braking, will cause the rotors to warp and make the brakes vibrate when stopping. The reason the shop didn't mention this is it's difficult to see during a visual inspection and actually has to be measured.
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