I had a set of Azenis mounted on stock 15x6 rims a few months ago. Initially they were great. No problems at all. For the past 2 months i have been getting steering wheel vibration at 80-85mph. I checked to make sure the wheel weights are still on the wheels (and they were).

Is it possible for wheels to become unbalanced over time? Like i said they have been on like 3-4 months or thereabouts. I had my car aligned after i got the tires on and am running like 1/16th total toe out in the front with zero toe in the rear. Camber is fine from what the knowledgeable guy said for road racing Honda's. What gives? Should i get my wheels re-balanced and see if that works?

On a side note i have done the RTR power steering setup. Could a lack of power steering cause a vibration in the steering wheel? Let's have a discussion.

Mike
2000 ITR


[Modified by EleanoR, 1:02 AM 9/10/2002]

 

have the balance checked.

america's tire offers free life time balancing if you buy tyres thru them

 

Thanks Yoshi! I will have them balanced ASAP and hopefully it does the trick.

Mike

 

FWIW 80-85 seems to be a bit of a sensitive spot for my car as far as a "little" vibration, and even re-balancing at NTB didn't necessarily fix it to my liking.

I even tipped the service tech to try and get the best results possible, without much added benefit.
That being said, the tech said they were fine ...

Guess I've just got a sensitive .... hehe or as Yoshi would say juju


[Modified by Zygspeed, 8:45 PM 9/9/2002]

 

For better balancing of your tires/wheels, make sure the tire place enters the right specs of your wheels.. size/width/offset usually they end up measuring the wheel and entering wrong specs in balancing machine, (lets say they enter the width of the tire instead of the wheel), sometime for all 3 (size/width/offset) could be entered wrong so.. if you know your wheel specs, just verify they used that. - located on the back of most wheels

next, if you don't care about minor/major scrapes to the wheel, then dynamic balancing with aluminum weights should yeld a better balancing job.

using sticky weights on the inside is harder to balance, if balanced well, it should be very close to outside weights.

its possible for wheel to come up balanced and still be unbalance

lets say weights are placed for dynamic balancing, but wrong function is selected (function for balancing on the inside). it will come out balanced, yet if dynamic function was selected - it would been balanced more precise.

more things to consider: having certain tire pressure, back vs front could reduce vibration.. all depends

another, a bit more expensive balancing is road force balancing, force is applied to the wheel and machine will tell you the mounting point of tire on the wheel.. probably the best thing to do when you mount new tires in the first place. its expensive and as mentioned before, most of problems can be resolved with re-balancing.


[Modified by vtec.dc2, 9:04 PM 9/9/2002]

 

got them balanced today and it did the trick Yoshi. Thanks

I am glad it was the balance that was off.

mike