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S60 Wheels Won't Stay Balanced
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Re: S60 Wheels Won't Stay Balanced -
10-18-2009
, 09:13 PM
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My 1990 740 Turbo Volvo has Fulda tires which are not round .In guess the Germans have problems making any thing round but tires need to be .When I jacked up the whells in gear the tires were wobbly.This explains why my sterring is uncomfortable with no vibration but a shimmer and odd sound when coming to a stop.I have seen tires not settled on rims do the same . "James Sweet" <jamesrsweet (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:h91gfb$e36$1 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org... Pavel314 wrote: On Sep 14, 9:59 pm, James Sweet <jamesrsw... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: The tires are the Michelins which come standard with the car, a fairly reputable brand. The wheels are the standard alloy wheels, which were checked for roundness or deformation. I'm taking it in on Tuesday and will report back any findings. Paul Michelins tend to be quite good, I suppose you could have got a bad batch, so it's worth inspecting them carefully, but I would expect the problem to be somewhere else. Wheel bearings in good shape? Alignment good? I can't think of much else. No bearing problems that I can tell. The car has only 31,000 miles and the problem surfaced after rotating the tires, so had it been bearings, I would have noticed it earlier. I took it to the shop and they checked the balance on all the wheels. One was very slightly out of balance so they rebalanced it. The alignment was set on the first visit and is good. No irregularity in the tires or wheels, everything round and smooth. The guy at the shop took it up to 80 mph on a test run and noticed no vibration. Maybe I'm just being too sensitive but I really don't like the road feel of this car. It just doesn't seem smooth and even enough for its size and quality. Last year I had to rent a Chevy Impala while on a trip out of town and it had a much more even ride than my Volvo. Paul European cars in general tend to have much tighter, more responsive handling than domestic cars like the Impala. A consequence of this is more vibration and road feel transmitted to the driver. I like this personally but it sounds like you may prefer more of a luxury car. It has little to do with the quality of the car, it's how it's set up. |
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