What's up guys. I just purchased 4 new tires. Before the tires were mounted I had high speed balancing done. I used the hubcentric rings to center the tires which is what I thought the problem was in the first place. I had changed the stabilizer bar links (moog) which I thought was also part of the shaking problem. Tire size is 245/40/18 Nankang brand.

I still have the wheel shake, not as strong as before I put the hub rings on and changed the SBL but still have that shake and it drives me insane. I went back to the tire spot to have them check the balancing, they say it's fine. Could it be their wheel balancing machine is off? Did they not calibrate the machine correctly?

Any insight would be great..all ideas are welcome!

TIA

 

Go somewhere else to have them balanced, sometimes it is hit and miss with balancing, my brothers truck got balanced crappy at the same place I got awesome balancing...

 

did they balance the wheels on a road force balancing machine, it takes longer, but it tells which tire will go good on a specific rim. the little rinky dink balancing machines are only for small wheels, or steel wheels.

 

thanks bro!! I was thinking to go somewhere else..

 

thanks bro!! I was thinking to go somewhere else..

Let me know which shop you go to, I'm having the same issue. About to change the control arms to see if the ball joints are bad. (car has 170,000 miles on it, should change them out anyway).

 

Either they balanced your wheels wrong, or you have a bent/warped wheel that cannot be corrected from balancing. I had a set of wheels where one was too warped to balance properly several years back.

 

FWIW - I recently went through the same thing w/ a Chevrolet Malibu. Went through tires, inflation pressures, balancing and nothing fixed it. Then $85 at a Les Schwab for a 4 wheel alignment and all is well. My wife had turned short and driven over a curb with the right side and apparently that was enough to tweak the alignment. LOL - guess I'm old enough to remember what an "out of alignment" issue feels like - used to be something you had to do occasionally but this is the first time for me in about 20 years.

Live long, and prosper
Jerry L. Gubka

 

Wheel balancing only works to fix the rotating unbalance in one plane of the wheel. If it is deformed, or the tire is deformed, you will get gyroscopic effects that are indiscernible from a purely unbalanced wheel. Wheel alignment issues could also cause this, and would be the cheaper route to check first.

 

well guys got my max back from the repair shop.. It was a bad axle,wheel bearing too.. Now my max ride like a new max..LOL

Thanks guys...

 

Did she conveniently forget how fast and how high the curb was?

 

i think you need to balance it man. Get it to shop that can resolve the balancing.

 

LOL - yes, apparently multiple times. She works at the local Ford dealership which is located at the crest of a hill on a very busy street. So, she was busy watching for/avoiding oncoming traffic when she crossed the street to enter the parking lot and missed the curb cutout with the right side wheels. She's since changed her approach to avoid crossing traffic and hasn't done that again for quite a while.

As Marines say, "Improvise, adapt, overcome".

Live long, and prosper
Jerry L. Gubka

 

Wasup guy The shop i went Mega auto diagnostic...see link.


http://www.superpages.com/bp/Bronx-N...2169569721.htm

 

i was about to say bad axle or bearing...i had the same issue in my 5th gen when i had it and changed all axles and both front bearing it drove like a pacecar after that LOL

 

Ditto.... Drive like new!!!! LOL

 

i had kinda the same problem my wheel would shake going above 60 but it would be every couple seconds shake, no shake, shake, no shake so on and so fourth i had several diff shops tell me several different things anything from rotors to outer tie rod to halfshaft, well it ended up being my wheel bearing wasnt making any noise but the little bastard was shot lol