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i drive the interstate to college and recently got some rims. They were shaking pretty bad at 70mph so i got the hub centric rings to tighten them. Now they shake from time to time at 70+mph. My wheels are balanced, aligned, and the rims are not bent? What could it be? Will it ruin my tires?

 
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Re-torque them, should be fine.

 
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Yeah, had the same problem, after a perfect balance and stuff...although, my lugs were pretty messed up, so I went out and bought a whole new set, and what a difference..just re-torqued em last night and it got a little better...there will be some vibration since our steering knuckles have a lot of play and with bigger tires, you feel more of the road...hope this helps....also, make sure you check the lugs often because tuner lugs are pretty touchy...


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might want to see if there balanced correctly....thats what i would assume

 
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There are several things that may cause this. To name a few:

1. The tires may have been balanced, and you may have watched them do it, but there's the possibility that their machine was out of calibration. Your tires could still be out of balance.

2. Your tires may not be positioned on the wheel properly. They can put the wheel on a machine, and turn the tire while it's on the wheel.

3. You might benefit from having the tires balanced dynamically (balancing them with the wheels on the car), although it's hard to find places that do this.

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4. You said that they shake from time to time. Sounds like it's the road conditions. With bigger wheels and tires, you're going to feel the road more like 2Hottie mentioned. Pay attention to how smooth of a road you're driving on when it's vibrating as opposed to when it's not.

But, I would definately make sure they have been balanced correctly.

 
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My money is on the balancing, maybe the company did them wrong, you'll never know, Check your axles too, I know its a new car, but that is a possiblity. Check everything the suspension is connected to.[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

 
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Yeah, what happened with mine was they were balancing them wrong, and they did this two times till this last time I just had em balanced, I found the correct way to do it. I understand they WERE doing counterbalancing which tricks the machine into thinking the wheel is balanced, thus giving a temp fix form what I understand in convo w/ the wheel tech...now mine is balanced correctly, and it does do it from time to time. Like Zeta said, watch the road surfaces since concrete highways make the car drive like hell, plus all the ruts from the trucks running the roads too...


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