I have a question I have the 512's on my car and have had them balance twice and still have a slight shake in the steering wheel. It isn't terrible but enough to tell it is there. What could this be?

 

is it when you're braking?
how old are the tires?

 

New tires?

Maybe crappy balance job. I had new tires put on my 95 Dunlop sp5000 and they caused a shake in the wheel. Had them balanced 2x by the same shop. The car was in Nissan a week later (different issue) and they said that they balanced the tires because they noticed a shake in the steering wheel. Picked up the car and no shake.

 

No isn't the rotors no problem with braking just had these tires installed about 2 weeks ago and it didn't do it before that. I think it is in the balancing

 

Maybe they are bent already? Lets hope not

 

I don't see how they could be bent when they never shook with the factory tires and haven't hit anything that hard in the road. I believe it is in the balance mainly due to you only feel it when you are at 45 mph or higher.

 

Sure sounds like a balancing issue to me. Either that or you may have a tire that is out of round. I'd try a different shop to have the re-balance them and check for out of round.

 

Maybe the shop only did a static balance. Or maybe it's a nonuniformity in tread stiffness that a road force balance might correct.

Read this current thread: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=320197.

Norm

 

Balancing issue. I had mine rebalanced 4 times, they had to replace 2 tire cuz they were "out of round", also are they using one of them RoadForce machines? If yes, ask them to balance to 1/4oz not 1/2 oz. Some shops get lazy...

 

It was a balancing issue. If it if starts again I will take it to the dealer and have them do it.

 

Hub rings....they fixed my problem...

http://www.1010tires.com/hubrings.asp

 

I have the same problem the steering wheel vibrates when i'm going over 60 mph. I have size 235/45/17