Wheels ballast is missing....

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11-13-2003, 04:54 PM

Neeferea

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Wheels ballast is missing....

My car is acting funny lately. When I am going 60+ car shakes and changes lanes by itself. Went to Nissan. They said everything is fine and that I don't need an alignment. Now I checked the car myself and found out that the ballast that I had on the inside of the rim is missing. Is it the cause of the car shaking and how to fix it.

11-13-2003, 06:21 PM

JdoubleOe703

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What is a ballast? are you talking about the weights they use to balance the rims w/ the tires? Not all rims have those weights, depending on how well the tires balance out... But i'm not too sure what you mean by balast on the rims...

11-13-2003, 07:19 PM

Neeferea

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Yeah thats what i mean. The problem is that i dont have them, but I used to. Is that going to lead to car shaking?

11-13-2003, 07:32 PM

Mick Max

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Yeah, loosing a wheel weight can cause big time shaking. Never heard of the unwanted lane changes though.

11-13-2003, 08:04 PM

Neeferea

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Where do our max's have the wheel weights, on the inside of the wheel or outside?

11-13-2003, 08:08 PM

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The weights are on the inside of the rim, I drove for a short time after I put new tires and the car shook like hell untill I the tires balanced specifically around 45+MPH. I would recommend a high-speed wheel balancing, it should be around $50 or less.