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Posted by JohnB (more from JohnB) on Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:34:18 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Front end shakes, StaceyO, Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:18:11
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don't be too sure you got the wheels balanced. I went through two years of hell in the N. VA area on my 84 900T with the wheels being balanced by everyone from the dealer to Merchant Tire to then-NTW, now NTB. I finally ended up at Autothority, a Porsche (remind me to tell you of the joke of the woman who asked the itinerant man to paint her porch and the guy painted the car in the back yard and asked her if she needed her house painted....) tuner in Fairfax VA on the recce of someone who said the shop foreman was a Saabophile (true at the time, dunno now). I brought my own floor jack and proceeded to pop all four wheels and bring them into his shop from the parking lot.

Sure enough, EVERY wheel was out of balance...one was much worse than if it had no weights on it at all. After he balanced them, the car ran stone cold smooth at 100+. At least it did for 10-15K miles until I had to do it all over again, this time at Craven Tire in Fairfax...seems the owner of Craven Tire (Goodyear dealer) is a porschephile/used to be prez of the local porsche club, yada yada yada.

So make sure the guy balancing your tires is adequate to the job, and his equipment too. Hunter makes some good equipment, even a new balance machine that loads the tire with a roller while the imbalance is being measured. Try to find an operator with a machine that can be overridden to reflect the true imbalance...lots of these clowns limit imbalance to 1/2 oz or more....that's 15grams imbalance which can be enough to vibrate.

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