Just wondering how many of you have a vibration after installing a new set of rims/tires and if you had them match mounted/road force balanced.

Reason I ask is that I have one rim/tire combo that I can't get a decent (less than 20lbs) road force variance on. The rim is fine, it's just my second tire I have tried and I can't get it to road force balance to my liking. Right now it's at 36lbs and even though it balanced up fine with hardly any weight needed (0.75oz). The Hunter machine keeps telling us to move it around and that it can be OE matched, but when we move it to where it wants it and then try it again it tells us to move it again...

Thing that sucks is that the very FIRST time it was mounted and road force balanced we got a variance of 24lbs and it said that it could be match mounted to decrease the variance. We did that and then it jumped up to like 58lbs! Then after another 4 or 5 times of match mounting we could only get it back down to 36lbs.

I am just trying to get a feel for if I will feel a vibration or not. I can't install it and test drive them because I am re-doing my brakes and also have to wait for my 4th rim to return from iForged seeing it showed up with out of spec radial runout.

Paul

 

don't any of you guys get your tires balanced??

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I have a set of 18in ZO6 wheels and when I had them mounted and balanced they turned out fine. I had the tire shop use the self adhesive sticky weights on the inside of the wheel. No vibration. They used the same machine thats in the Tire Rack ad. Hope this helps.

 

i balanced my own wheels non road force. just standard dynamic tape weight balance and they dont vibrate

 

more than likely you just got a standard balance then, because you normally have to specify if you want a road force and or match mount even if they have the Hunter GSP 9700.

 

Standard balancing(non road-force) always works fine for me. I usually only static balance at that, because I don't care for weights on the outside of the rim. It seems to work plenty fine for me. The set of Z06 knockoff 17's I have now aren't even balanced and they're fine to 100+ mph. One of these days I'll get around to balancing them. Can you actually feel the out of balance tire while driving the vehicle, or is the machine simply telling you it's out of balance? I didn't even think road force balancing was even necessary until you got into heavy, large diameter(big sidewall) truck tires.