Wheel/Tire Balancing

[btopping]

Hi Everyone,

My '01 boxster gets a slight steering wheel wiggle at about 75-80 mph. I'm thinking the wheels need to be balanced. Does anyone have a recommendation for a place to have this done in the Lincoln/Rocklin/roseville area?

thanks

[Loren]

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[logray]

The "shultz"? tire factory in auburn (near dry creek road) has a road force balancer, highly recommended!!!! They fixed the shimmy I had in my front end. After going to countless shops to try to fix this, I gave up and thought I had a bent rim (one of the shops told me so, which they were wrong). So I brought my wheels to Preciscion Wheel Works near downtown Sac who repairs wheels and when we spun them he found the rims were near perfect, but it was the tires that were so off. More rubber in a certain spot than most "run of the mill balancers" are used to seeing (over 2 ounces). Perhaps a manufacturing defect, but not too far out to balance. I did not want to pursue warranty because they were .5 32nd's out of warranty, and the prorated warranty amount would have been too little. The road force balance cured the wobble. Even at 80+ MPH the car just sails down the road pefectly smooth !!!!

Look for a shop who has the latest and greatest road force balancer, and any shop will suffice, this is the best equipment currently. Here is the 9700 machine finder link: You want one that has "straight track LFM".

http://www.gsp9700.c...findgsp9700.cfm

That andjust as important as a balance is proper torque value, torque sequence, and air pressure and you should be good to go.

If it is still wobbling after that and the above wasn't done right or you also need an alignment.

Edited April 5, 2012 by logray

[btopping]

Thanks! Did a search & it looks like there are 2 in Lincoln & a few in Rocklin.

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update. I did replace the front control arms & rear trailing arms, that made a big diffrence. Had the force balance & and wheel alignment done yesterday & WOW. Schultz did tell me the right side tires could not be completely force balanced since they were out of range. Funny since the tires are not the same brand front to rear. They also said the right side was maxed at the camber adjustment, thinking I might have to replace the track arms. guess I start budgeting for track arms, & wait on tires since the rears are almost new & the fronts will probably go a while.

[logray]

Cool, well... sounds like you got it sorted.

[btopping]

Yep, me too. Had the car out on Sunday for a quick (fast) ride & it was rock solid!! thanks for the advice & referral to schultz, great guys there.