So I took my car into the dealership for a 4 wheel alignment and wheel balancing.
When you balance wheels you remove all the weights and add more from there, right? Does the same go for stick-on weights?
The dealership didn't take any off, just added a few more. My problem with this is that i'm not sure if they're even balanced. My car still vibrates over 130 on the highway....
Any input?
They also tightened my lugs to well over 100 when I specified 90
Hmmm. You should have removed all the wheel weights before you went in. I have had tires rebalanced, and yes, they basically just added more weights as needed. No place I have ever went to removed all the weights and started over from scratch.
The overtightened lugs could the reason behind the vibrations.
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The dealership split the weights on my xB wheels. I'm going to make them fix it, or let me balance them when I go back in next week.
As far as doing it right, ALL the weights should be removed and start balancing from blank. If they don't remove the weights and just stick weights on, they are simply balancing to offset the INbalance of the old weights... and are a bunch of jackasses for doing it that way.
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ur sunfire can go over 130?
he's talking in KM/hour. I would take it to a good shop instead of the dealership, if you have a good shop. I have found one and it's the only place I go.
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Deflux, try a recommended tire shop, they normally do the best jobs. When i was workin in that area i never wanted to have a customer return for something so simple. If they can take the time to put the wheel on the balancer, a few extra seconds stripping the old weights off doesn't hurt. Besides, seeing 2 sets of stick on weights in different areas on a wheel looks like ass. Take it back and make the lazy bastards do it right
Ummmm..... all the weights should come off before adding any new ones on. If you are getting it re-balbnced that means the old ones are not doing a good job or are in the wrong place after hitting a curb or something. I have never been in a place that just added more on.
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i work at a volvo dealer, i know for a fact all the techs at my job (i work in parts) remove the old weights then re-balance it.
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My car still vibrates over 130 on the highway....
Got hubcentric rings?
Jay
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J-kub wrote:Quote:
My car still vibrates over 130 on the highway....
Got hubcentric rings?
Jay
i had a customer buy some wheels for his 04 maxima and came back with a vibration. I tried dam near everything in the book. Different lugs (tuner lugs and then ET lugs), re-balancing, rotating the wheels, re- re-balacing, hub centric rings, re-re-re-balancing and, test drove it myself after each "solution". I finally blamed it on the cheap ass Z-racing wheels he bought for about 40 bux each haha. He bought something with slightly "better quality" (still z-racing, just a different name) and the vibration was gone.
