Re: New Tires and Alignment
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Originally Posted by billschroeder5842
Any small vibrations around 70ish? I've done a lot of work to eliminate that.
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When I bought my '95 it initially (2012) it had Sumitomos on it. I could never get rid of wheel imbalance vibrations around 70 or so. When in Bowling Green in 2015 I visited Jim Van Dorn at his shop and he kindly balanced the wheels, but on pretty rudimentary equipment. Still didn't improve much. So I took the car to a local tire dealer there who had the latest Hunter equipment and a really experienced technician. He found that he had to rotate all four tires about 180 degrees on the rims, use a lot of weights, and one tire he simply couldn't balance. Said the tire was out of spec from the manufacturer and could not be balanced. With his work he did get rid of about 95% of the vibration and when I got home I replaced the Sumis with Michelins from Costco. No balance problems after that. --Bob
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