Vibrating Rims Revisited

[jazzlara]

sorry dude, lol, i was lookin at the wrong list. my bad

[jazzlara]

nevermind. im an idiot. i found it.

[bassthrive]

Interesting post. After several balancings and an alignment my mille miglia evo's still vibrate at highway speed and even cause the steering wheel to shimmy slightly. I do, in fact, have metal hub rings so maybe getting a set of plastic ones will help? Im gonna see if tirerack.com will do it for free.

[jazzlara]

see, i have the plastic ones on right now that I believe are causing the problem. Im going to try and get the metal ones from the link posted earlier on in this thread.

Why cant my steering just be NORMAL!!!

[indiglosolara]

Interesting post. After several balancings and an alignment my mille miglia evo's still vibrate at highway speed and even cause the steering wheel to shimmy slightly. I do, in fact, have metal hub rings so maybe getting a set of plastic ones will help? Im gonna see if tirerack.com will do it for free.

i have the metal ones and i haven't head any problems. But i do know it can be the rims sometimes and the tires you use.

the reason being is when i had my 18" arospeeds i had federal HP tires and i was getting a little vibration when hitting 80+, but now with my 19" adr with toyo tires i dont get the vibration at all.. its perfectly smooth. I am using the same hubcentric ring for the past 3 sets of rims i had.

Maybe this information can help you out a bit..

[2002greenhornet]

As far as the rings go, what matters is whether they fit really tight or not. If they wiggle around even a little, there's good chance that's contributing to your problem. In my case, I knew that the wheels and tires were quality and that the balance was the best possible. There's no better balance you can get than a Hunter 9700 road-resistance balancer with the right guy running it. I figured the only thing left to try was the rings, which turned out to be correct. The quality and fit of the rings probably vary between manufacturers and even lots. I had two sets of metal ones that didn't fit right.

Also important is to make sure you tighten the lugs evenly in a crossing pattern with the wheel off the ground--tightening each little by little as you repeat the pattern, not all at once. If you have to let it down for the last bit of torquing because the wheel's trying to turn, it should only just touch the ground enough to keep the wheel from moving.

I'm sure everybody already knows this stuff, but you never know. It might help the one guy that didn't.

[bassthrive]

Just got lowered today with tokicos and tiens. Did an alignment as well, and they did suggest a camber kit to keep the tire wear even. My vibration is practically gone now. I thought lowering would make the problem worse but I guess the alignment did the trick. The toe on my rears was significantly out and the camber on the fronts was out as well (-1.4.) Still some very mild vibration, but I think that may be due to the poor balancing job the incompetents at my local tire shop did. I have lost all respect for them as of 10am this morning when they outright refused to work on my car's suspension, though I will make one last appointment with them to fix the balance issue.