Wheek vibration SORTED

[alisdair]

I put a post on earlier this week regarding the vibration through the steering wheel. After loads of kak it is sorted and it only cost me approx 6 quid.

Got the wheels high speed balanced. No problems at all, all the way up to 230kms/h. If you have this problem my advice before doing anything else it get it high speed balanced

[Smurf]

Excellent - glad to hear you're sorted now mate.

[Chriso]

alisdair i am having exactly this problem. I have had my wheels (17's) balanced at kwik fit and it still shakes between 65 and 75, it is very annoying as my car is a 1997 with only 78k on it. It is so smooth at all other speeds.

Is high speed balancing different from normal balancing (the type kwik fit would perform) ??

[Robert_Dale]

Same probs here, wonder if there is anywhere that does this round my end, i presume they spin it at a faster rate then or summet?

[Chriso]

Well have i got news for you. This may sound like an act of God but a guy on MIG suggested to me tonight that I should swap my rear wheels for my front ones. I got one side swapped and went for a test drive and there is a good improvement. I ran out of daylight and am to swap the others tommorow. Try it, you never know ...

[alisdair]

They dont take the wheel off to balance them. They have a wheel that spins the tyre which in turn gives you reading to a pc attached to the wheel. Very simple though. It spins it up to 70mph. It also balances your driveshaft, disc etc. So well worth it. I had swapped my wheels from back to front but had the same problem. So put them back again. All sorted anyway.

I dont know if Kwik Fit will do it.

[Chriso]

after swapping the other side too, the problem has completely gone away, woo hoo !!