[Shotimes] Shimmy

[Dave Kegel]

Sorry Don, I think on-the-car tire balancing is BS.  If the Tire Rack can
sell multi-thousand dollar wheel and tire packages for Vettes, Vipers, BMWs,
Mercedes, Ferraris, what have you, all balanced by a spin balancer, you
should be able to get by with a spin balanced wheel/tire on your Taurus.  I
have, and so have millions of others, for a long time now.

If you cannot get a decent balance with a spin balancer, you've got a bent
wheel or a bad tire, or something else off in the rotating assembly.  Maybe
you can hide that fact by balancing the wheel/tire on the car, but the true
problem is not the spin balancer.

We can agree to disagree.

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
To: "Dave Kegel" <d.kegel@comcast.net>
Cc: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: July 03, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Shimmy


> Dave,
>
> I can read to, and like I said, my car was vibrating so bad
> I had to stop and rotate on the road.  Sounded EXACTLY like
> what the guy described, and a good balance solved the
> problem 100% and for the life of those tires.
>
> I don't give out bad advice (well almost never anyway) and
> this is a cheap way to find out if it IS balance before
> starting the MUCH more expensive process of replacing other
> things.
>
> The guy needs to get a GOOD balance, and sping balancing on
> a machine is NOT a good way to do it.
>
> Don Mallinson
>
> Dave Kegel wrote:
> > Oh come on guys!  If his steering wheel and dash are shaking that much
at 60
> > MPH, he's well past needing  the fine tuning that an on-the-car-balance
will
> > give him.  Don't side track the poor guy by having him start searching
for a
> > place that will do this.
> >
> > Dave