low speed wobble/highway speed vibration????
07-26-2019, 10:00 AM
#26
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Firestone only balanced one of my wheels looks like, as the other was WAY off. other one was perfect but they didnt balance it out on the static portion? But ya, on the machine the manager had me look at the tire, you can clearly see a hump or imperfection in both tires, one of them is really bad, looks like my tire has a built in speed hump........ glad i fingered out the issue, sucks that YET again i have to buy another set of tires for the front..... these have like 90% tread left and only 2 seasons old.
07-26-2019, 11:45 AM
#27
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That is why it's so important to have a good reliable shop that you can go to for these types of things.
07-26-2019, 12:38 PM
#28
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Ive tried a handful of places, they do a good job first time then botch it second lol. idk my buddy just bought some state of the art snap on balancer and tire instillation machine, its a little bit of a drive but thats where im going next.
thanks for your help yall. lesson learned, dont rule out tires just cause they are newer.
thanks for your help yall. lesson learned, dont rule out tires just cause they are newer.
07-29-2019, 03:51 PM
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I have the same issue that you have, I also ripped my rear sub frame bolts out the frame. I am highly modified so I knew it was bound to happen. I would be interested to know how you fixed yours as I took it a step further in repairing mine. The vibration I have is identical to what you are describing, and my driveshaft got slightly twisted which caused the issue for me immediately. I also replaced my front wheel bearings and race, new tires all the way around. That needed to be done anyway, but had the driveshaft pulled and looked at and it was verified what I suspected.
08-16-2019, 10:26 AM
#31
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So just wanted to give yall a heads up, 4 new tires and wheels balancing, car drives like new. gonna get an alignment done soon as well. as i noticed some excessive camber wear on one of the tires and i pulls to the left a little. sucks having a few hundred dollars worht of tires chilling in my garage with 90% tread left, gotta love Connecticut roads.....
08-17-2019, 02:12 AM
#32
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So running out of parts to replace trying to figure out this low speed wobble in the steering wheel, and vibration at highway speeds,vibration is visible in the passenger seat/entire car . ( 06 cls55 81k miles)
Literally just replaced all 4 tires, and road force balanced, followed by alignment on a newer hunter machine, new meyle rotors akebono pads, new meyle trans andengine mounts, all front suspension components have around 35k on them, and seem solid. Not getting any play doing the usual tests.
double checked the bearings up front for play, everything seems perfect, seem to spin freely, only thing worth noting is that it does seem like the pads touch/drag the rotor in one spot?
Only OTHER thing worth noting is that i did just have the threaded portion in right rear subframe rip out of the frame. Which is now repaired , but before i take the car off the lift, wanted to pick your guys brains.
Bought 2 meyle LCA bushings i might just do for hahas, other than than that im out of ideas, bent spindle, sticky caliper?
Car does pull slightly to the left and will get another alignment done, but would like to get this issue figured out before that.
Literally just replaced all 4 tires, and road force balanced, followed by alignment on a newer hunter machine, new meyle rotors akebono pads, new meyle trans andengine mounts, all front suspension components have around 35k on them, and seem solid. Not getting any play doing the usual tests.
double checked the bearings up front for play, everything seems perfect, seem to spin freely, only thing worth noting is that it does seem like the pads touch/drag the rotor in one spot?
Only OTHER thing worth noting is that i did just have the threaded portion in right rear subframe rip out of the frame. Which is now repaired , but before i take the car off the lift, wanted to pick your guys brains.
Bought 2 meyle LCA bushings i might just do for hahas, other than than that im out of ideas, bent spindle, sticky caliper?
Car does pull slightly to the left and will get another alignment done, but would like to get this issue figured out before that.
08-17-2019, 08:59 AM
#33
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Read below
So just wanted to give yall a heads up, 4 new tires and wheels balancing, car drives like new. gonna get an alignment done soon as well. as i noticed some excessive camber wear on one of the tires and i pulls to the left a little. sucks having a few hundred dollars worht of tires chilling in my garage with 90% tread left, gotta love Connecticut roads.....
Last edited by tlambert; 08-17-2019 at 09:01 AM.
