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    Cool Wheel Balancing

    Okay, after owning Corvettes and other vehicles with low profile tires, I cannot seen (or the local Ford dealer cannot seem) to get these wheels balanced. Are we missing something? We've had weights on the outside, inside and both clip on and stick on. This is a 2003 with 6,000 miles.
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    my wheels viberate very bad as well.... mine have over 6 ounces of weight right now i believe..

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    I bought some 18 with low profile tires for my honda and they to could'nt get one tire to balance.It turned out to be a bad tire ,they fixed the problem with a new tire.May be it's your tires not sure.

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    my shops balance hunderds of 18 to 22 inch tire wheel combo's 1-make sure oe mounting marke's red dot on wheel match red dot on tire 2-if you can not see red dot on tire or wheel ,there will be yellow dot on tire ,match yellow dot with valve stem 3- if the balance still off mark tire at valve stem demount and move tire 180 degrees 4-make sure your installer has a balance equiped to handle tire/wheels to 20" or 22" as this make's a big differance in caliberation of my balancers, hope this helps jb.

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    The stock wheels and tires are notorious for being hard to balance and the general consensus is the Goodyear tires are to blame.

    Have the dealer or tire shop try indexing the tire to see if they can get a better balance.

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    Also, you may try to find a shop that has one of the new laser balancing machines. Not very many places have them since they are so damned expensive.
    aka LeeRandall - NHTOC #25

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    A couple things:

    Goodyears: hate them, after I replaced the 2nd tire that wouldn't fully balance (after replacing 2 blown tires) I was fed up.

    On my Acero 20x9's they were balanced great for the first 3K, then I lost a strip of weights... then it was all messed up.

    My local "Dub" specialist (in the heart of Urban St Louis)... he said that all the "regular" tire shops try to throw all the weight they can at the wheel to make it balance. He said, like others here have said... the valve stem line-up marks are critical as you go bigger. Also the weights often are high quantities required to offset the size of the 20" + tires... they do them in 2 rows, one on the inside of the wheel (closest to the mounting center) & the other on the far outside lip...

    I was talking to a guy not to long ago who had a shop find out the amount & mark the locations of weight needed & had them then dismount the tire, install the weights INSIDE the tire on the rim, & then reinstall the tire... interesting theory.

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    install the weights INSIDE the tire on the rim, & then reinstall the tire... interesting theory.
    hmm that is a new one for me, but I can't see where it would make any difference. But I know if you end up with a huge amount of weight on a wheel have them break it loose and spin is 180 degrees and that will normally drop the amount of weight needed by 2/3's.

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    i know exactly what you guys mean, these goodyears are junk,
    they have little cracks all over and the hardest tire to balence,
    i put the weight on the inside and couldnt believe how much weight they were asking for! if you watch the tire on the balancing machine it has a wabble to it the rims don't.

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    hey CDN... I had not one but 2 yes T-W-O Good-junks completely seperate the tread from the side walls!!!

    My balance on my Good-Junks deteriorated(sp) as the miles went on...


    I know there are 50+ people on here who are on their 2-3-4-5th sets of Gt-II-Junks... Not me...

    Unsafe...

    Rob

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    This is great. I can remember on the corvette that it came with Goodyear tires and after one set, I went to Mich. That took care of all the trouble. Until i got the bill!!!!!
    Well we're going to Goodyear tomorrow morning, so we'll see what they think of your comments...
    Thanks

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    On the wheel weights inside the tire it was as much in hope the wheel weights would stay put as well as for shows, no weights showing at all.

    Rob

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    Anybody ever used a system called Equal ? its supposed to be the great but havent found anyone who used it
    Old enough to know better but young enough to still do it !

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    You need to find a shop with a road force balancer, this is the only way to go. Most shops won't have this machine due to the high cost, but some dealerships should. Road force machine will tell you if the tire is bad, rim etc. Very high tech machine, of course I work at ford and we don't have the machine yet!;c Our boss tells us to take them across the lot to the mercury shop cause they have the road force! That is your best bet to get rid of vibration, good luck!
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    My god.... I must have had WAYY to many sodas the day I typed those messages... sorry guys... more typos then information... geez

    ANyway... the mega dollar balancer's are great... but the staff to run them is still the real problem. They just don't care.... They see 20" + wheels & think all $$ no brains...

    Rob W.

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