Tyre Balancing

Take them back to where you bought them from. Tell them that its not right. let them fix it or replace them. If you didnt get the rims you asked for tell them you want the right ones.

Dont expect any help from Goodyear, I didnt get any..

Have you checked the front wheel bearings?

If you have bought thesame diameter tyres as b4, then it is probably the tyres or rims. If they are bigger diameter,or if the offset on the new rims is different, maybe the wheel bearings.
Try lifting a front wheel and rocking it to feel any slackness there. Alternately go get a wheel alignment and ask the guy to check for possible faults that would give you the symptoms you have.
If all is ok, take em back and say you dont want tyres that cant be balanced, hey are unsafe, change em.
BTW ROH will have a beed of silastic around the outer rim where it meets the part you put the nuts on.
Andrew
wheredayathinkwer mike?

Check out the tyres. My brother had two new tyres replaced as they were faulty. It was not noticed until later that there was a manufacturing problem.

A friend of mine had a similar problem with his EF Falcon. Had wheels balanced multiple times and wheel alignment done by two different places. In the end it turned out to be worn suspension.
Jim

Guys,

I don't think it has anything to do with wheel bearings, as these are my second tyres. The standard road tyres are fine, smooth as silk. Also the vehicle is less than a year old.

Question, when the tyre guys rotate the tyre on the rim, do they just guess where how much to rotate it, or is it more scientific than this?? My guess is that the rims are slightly off in balance, and the tyres are also. Perhaps I will get them to swap tyres on the rims. Also the steering has no shake, it seems to be vibrating/shaking in the body, so I think it is the back wheels that are the problem.

Any more thoughts greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

Andrew

have the tyres balanced on the car

as we say in the tyre trade.
if it lasts one year its a good year.
i would take them straight back where you got them get new rims and tyres and see if the problems goes away does sound to me like tyre problems
back by popular demand
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Andrew,

I have just cured this very same thing in my Hilux. I have 30x9.5x15 BFG on ROH rims and in the 5,000 kms I have had them have not been able to get them balanced - that's 6 balances, of which I only paid for the first one. My symptoms were the same as yours - wobble through the whole car, indicating ALL tyres/rims, and especially noticeable around the 80 - 100 km mark.

Just this Monday I finally had a gut full and took the car somewhere else where they have a machine that measures how much out of round, and precisely whereabouts out of round, each tyre and rim is. Then they match a tyre with a rim and put it on in an exact way so that the tyre / rim combo is as balanced as it can be before it is actually balanced (if that makes sense?)

Anyway, it's a bit hexi - cost me $100 ($25 per tyre) and they have the only machine in WA - but it's the best $100 I've ever spent on my car and I'll be going back there again.

I found this info on this site about 2 / 3 months ago and filed it away for future use, and then remembered it this week. Once again this forum comes up with the goods!

Keep all the good info coming trendsetters,
Cheers, Jim

"Lead, Follow.....or get out of the way!!"

Hi Andrew,

You must go back to where you purchased the tyres and rims. This is your only option. The problem is, from what you described, with what you have purchased and must be rectified. By either fixing what you have currenlty, or by them replacing the lot. They are going to tell you many reasons why it is not the tyres or rims that you purchased but you must stay focused and DO NOT let them get away with what is blatently obvious to all of us here, You have been sold below standard products. Stick it to them. They won't like it and they will most likley get nasty but unless you want to drive around for the next couple of years and be reminded by a vibrating vehicle that you have been ripped of, this is your only choice.

I write the above with personal experience when I purchased a set of rims and tyres that were below standard. The tyres were warped and the rims did not fit onto the hub correctly.

Good luck

Owen

Further update, the called the guy back from Bob Jane who did the balance yesterday. He reckons that its a problem with the tyres, and is going to get onto Goodyear for me. Not bad, as this isn't where I originally bought the tyres and rims. I have lost faith in the original fitters completely last time they lied to me.

Anyway, I am supposed to be getting a call later today, so we will see what happens.

Andrew

Andrew,
Something else to consider, years ago, I had a set of rims (on my wife's car) that when tightened up went out of balance due to incorrect mating with the Wheel Hub. The rims were replaced and the problem went away.

Cheers,
Mal58

Guys,

The place I went to in WA is "Richards Tyrepower" on Scarborough Beach Road. I don't know the name of the machine - Diamond may be able to help with that?

And no, I don't have any ties with them - just happy to recommend something that works.

To those recent posts since my last on this thread. I agrre with you all 100%, there is no doubt that it is the tyres and or rims. All of mine however were within specs, that is they were round and had no obvious defects, and yet two of them still spun up (the day after an ordinary balance somewhere else) with a 25kg "throw" in them!!

Anyway Andrew, I hope it gets sorted for you one way or the other.Cheers, Jim

"Lead, Follow.....or get out of the way!!"