Tire balancing - Page 2

mgfiest · Oct 27th, 2009, 03:32 PM

sometime the way you store the winter tires may cause the vibration. the sometime go flat on one side, depending the how they were stored. any tire shop should be able to tell you if the tires are in bad shape

distefv · Oct 27th, 2009, 04:02 PM

I stored them on a tire rack. Each wheel was supported independantly and not touching the others.

mgfiest · Oct 27th, 2009, 05:42 PM

i would get them rebalanced... see if that would go away.... balancing does not last forever.

tbk · Oct 28th, 2009, 07:38 AM

The other possibility, and this happened to me on my old car, if you rotated your tires, you may find that the tire that was on the rear last year, is out of balance. When you put it on the front, it is now more noticable. If you are willing to take the time, you can isolate the bad tire and only rebalance that one. You can find hubcentric rings at most performance tire stores.

warrenw · Oct 29th, 2009, 06:26 PM

I had the out of balance issue after new front tires installed.

2006 5 spoke OEM rims.

the answer:

sticky wheel weights on the outer, clip on weights on the inner rim.

I have a buddy with a tire balancer in his garage. 15 min with him and his balancer fixed it.

Turned out the only weights installed were inner clip on type. My guess is the tire shop didn't have the stick on kind of weights.

rye1988 · Oct 30th, 2009, 01:08 AM

i don't know sounds like they did a "static" balance which they know is not as good as using clip ons but it looks better when there is no weights on the outside and some people just don't like using sticky's. i have quite a bit of experience in a couple tire shops and after reading your posts here i think most of it was laziness on the shops part. my old boss owned this tire shop for 10 years already and still he does not zero out truck tires on the balancer because it is a "waste of time" and does not zero out any tires even car tires during the busy season right before winter so it is very possible they are not balanced very good at all. and for those of you who don't know "zero" is when you spin the tire after you have put on the weights to make sure they are in the precisely correct place.