Nasty Vibration

[Mike Voth]

Originally Posted by chris tinberg

Hey mike when we first got the cavalier done we had a terrible vibration in the steering from the 1000 ft on ,we checked everything, to make a long story short we had a bad set of front tires how we found this out jason took them to a tire shop in north kcmo that balances big tires like for FWD trucks it is different than conventional spin balancers it has wheel of some sort that spins on the outside of the tire and thats how we found out the tire wasn't round from now on we always take them there to get mounted and balanced . this might not be your problem but keep that in mind for the future ,don't trust the track balancers were you buy your tires we had both front and rears checked and they told us they were ok ! good luck chris

Thanks, Chris. Even on stands, the vibration is horrible. On visual inspection, the rears don't seem to be out of balance, ie. not hopping or bouncing. I think it has to be in the driveline somewhere, but I also think we need to balance the tires once, as you mentioned. It definately wouldn't hurt and might make the ride more smooth.

Thanks again for the suggestion. Why weren't you guys at Denver?