Wobbly wheels - Do you have trouble getting your wheels balanced?

No buying new tyres for me, spend enough on tyres and rims to make me go a little dark shade of red when the problem arose. However, thus far it has been dealt with in a very professional manner!

Cheers

Chris.

Gday Bryan,

Yeah, I see where your coming from and he was doing it with the centre cone yesterday. To make matters more interesting, ROH have just contacted me and said that there is basically nothing wrong with the rim. They feel it may be his balancing equipment. So they want the tyre now to do there own testing.

What a debacle! Long as I come out on top, I don't care!

Thanks for your help mate, I've printed out what you said, and will take it with me tomorrow.

Cheers

Chris.

Hi Chris,
One time I went to a different tyre place to get my patrol tyres balanced and wheel alignment done, as I couldnt get it done at the place I normally take both my cars (wheels of Wanneroo if your in Perth), this was tyerpower 2 doors down. I drove it out the door and the balancing was F&^%#ED, waited a week to give it a chance, but no better so i went back and complained, they re-balanced the front tyres and found them both to be 10-20 grams out....... I drove away and instantly it was shuddering again at a different speed.... F&^%$Ed balancing again, took it back the next day and they tried again.. still they F%$Ed it up.... I was reallybleepof by this stage as I had wasted so much time having to go back to them as I had paid to have it done, and i didnt want to have to pay again... but I stopped in at the usual place 2 doors up, explained my fustration, they squeezed me in straight away,, balanced the tyres correctly, and I drove away with NO shudder.... So I always take my car and recommend Wheel of Wanneroo to people as they do it correctly.. I am there thrusday morning have new tyres fitted to the commodore, and confident it will all be done correctly the first time :-)
Unfortunately they couldnt get any new tyres for my patrol as there are no wrangler MTR's available in the WA goodyear warehouses :-( the next shipment into Aus is early Dec and 200 already on back order around the country, so i rang a goodyear shop who luckily tracked down a set at another goodyear shop, so unfortunately they will get my business - same price ($300 each -265/75R16). but Im anticipating the balancing will be stuffed and will have to take the patrol to the normal place to be balanced correctly :-( and Im sure the guy there will give me heaps about it.. :-)

anyway hopefully you will get yours all sorted out.

PS my mate just had his Coopers balanced at a different place - balancing was stuffed up, so he is off to Wheels of Wanneroo now also :-)

take care
Bryan

Fair dinkum, bit of a worry mate!

I'd buy the tyres from that place and have them fitted at the other place, blow giving them anymore money then you have too!

Their stinging you over there for MTR's at the moment, sounds like they've really taken off! I picked up my 285/75/16 MTR's for $279 each and according to someone on this site, that was still expensive!

Good luck to you mate, hope it all works out and I'll let you all know what the outcome is!

Cheers

Chris.

Bryan,

Go back to the shop and ask their quote for supply only. Take em to Wheels and get them to fit and balance. See what happens, and tell them why you want to do it this way.

Hi Chris,
How did you go with getting your tyres sorted out??

Mine are all done on both cars.
The MTR's were put on the patrol at the Goodyear centre in Wanneroo, and I must say they did an excellent job. i asked about the balancing and they do it the correct way, also got the wheel alignment done, which was out. over all, a very good experience. :-)

The tyres arnt very noisey either, only slightly noisier than the BFG AT i had on, so im happy about that also.

bye for now
Bryan

Fair enough...I'm guessing I'll know by the end of this week! thanks for your reply mate.

Cheers

Chris.