Found my vibration
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Found my vibration Well around 70mph i have had a vibration a for a while now. After i had them balanced at a tire store. I mostly do city driving so didn't really care about it. Well with the CTC trip i had to find out what it was. I thought it was the drive shaft or the rear tires. Well went to base shop today to check my balance and add some gear oil to the rear end. Well im sure it was my rear tires now. The right rear needed 2.75 and the left rear needed 1.00 with the weights on it. That's way more then enough to cause a bad vibration. So i took the weights off and and tried it again and it didn't need anywhere near as much weight. So i put the weight on it that was needed and it seem smoother in city but i haven't had it up yo 70mph yet to know 100%, but im sure its good. So this was 1st time i was lazy and let a tire store balance my tires and i will stick to me doing it my self 
i had the same thing happen but i spotted it the next day in the fwy.
and sure enough they forgot to balance the rear wheel and tires... just a small mistake got fixed and no vibrations at 70-80mph anymore
and sure enough they forgot to balance the rear wheel and tires... just a small mistake got fixed and no vibrations at 70-80mph anymore
I wish I knew how to balance tires, or knew of a good shop. I have a slight vibration on the highway sometimes, and you should see how many weights they have inside of each wheel. It's rediculous.
The amount of weights really does not matter, true having 3oz of weight is less desirable than .5oz, but some tires require more than others.
It's when they are in multiple spots that it's bad...
Next time, walk outside and watch the person do it. See the balancer and watch the numbers. It PISSES me off to watch people do it, but if I was that person...I'd be watching me.
It's when they are in multiple spots that it's bad...
Next time, walk outside and watch the person do it. See the balancer and watch the numbers. It PISSES me off to watch people do it, but if I was that person...I'd be watching me.
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I did tires for 3 year in HS and college. I know how to do it. I always go on base and do it my self. The one time i was lazy this happened lol Its really easy to do. I can show someone once and they are good to go. It was just funny i took there weight off and it got cut in half on what it needed. I see people now at tires stores doing what i was told not to do. I was told to keep ya weights together. If ya put weight on wheel and it needs some on the other side of the wheel pull the weight off and move it over a few inches until it's right and not put weights all over the wheel.
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Verdad Gallardo I see people now at tires stores doing what i was told not to do. I was told to keep ya weights together. If ya put weight on wheel and it needs some on the other side of the wheel pull the weight off and move it over a few inches until it's right and not put weights all over the wheel.
I don't think it's that they're told to...I think it's that they're too stupid too?
more than half of our "come-backs" are from stupid **** like that.
Not to highjack, but...I had a similar awesome experience with a local dealership (Van Chevrolet SUCKS!). I took in some wheels to be balanced. I hauled them in my truck to avoid any chance of the dealership messing them mounting the rims on my car. When I came back to pick them up, they had stacked the rims on top of each other. 1 wheel had a ding on the lip and 2 places on spokes where the powdercoating had been chipped off, and all 4 wheels had peeling around the hub...it looked like they had tried to remove the center caps with a screwdriver. They basically denied doing it, the service manager looked at them for 30 seconds and then walked off, so I told them they would never get business from me again, paid my bill and left. I then contacted someone in HR cuz I got more pissed the more I thought about it. She asked me to send pics, which I did, and then told me she had scheduled a meeting with the service manager. I have never been able to get in contact with her since. After waiting about 3 wks to mount the wheels, i finally put them on since I fugured there was never going to be compensation...and they were fuking out of balance! I then had to take them off the car, take them elsewhere and pay another $45 to have them balanced. 
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guess my drive shaft may need to be balanced becaust its stillt here at 70mph. I rumbels in and out over and over again. Everywhere else is a ton better but at 70mph its still the same. it has 124,000 miles on it and i dont thing the u joints have ever been replaced LOL. Ive checked and there is no play in the U-joints. Sucks because the out place in the area that do dravshafts are a bunch of *** holes that over charge because they no they are the only ones in town tha tcan do it. I can do u joints myself but i can't balance it 
If im going to have them balance it im going to have to have them do u joints $120.
If im going to have them balance it im going to have to have them do u joints $120. 
Sometimes you might have to dismount the tire and remount it 180 degrees to see if that helps balance it or not to use alot of weights. Its alot of work-but to have a happy customer and have the trust you with their hard work is worth it. But also to look for any runout as it is being balanced helps.