View Full Version : how to tell if my wheel is out of shape
khn47
23-06-2013, 05:34 AM
Hey guys,
Replaced my tires which cost me 400 and still getting this stupid noise like as if its the wheel itself that ismt exactly round, can this be fixed?
Kif 380
23-06-2013, 05:45 AM
If it's still doing it after new tyres then I think it's safe to rule out the tyres being out of round. No damage to any wheels?
khn47
23-06-2013, 05:58 AM
No visible damage but I hit a pothole a few months back and its been doing it since then, my old tyres were out of round amd when I got these the noise stopped for about 2 days then once the tyres got worn in they started making noise agaim, and its just my left side front where I hit the pothole but wouldn't my rim be actually cracked rather then bent?
khn47
23-06-2013, 05:59 AM
The thing is it was a sizable pothole so I had everythint checked out when I moved too Victoria but the suspension came up fine and I hit the pothole going at about 130 - 140 ks
I hit one of those tic tac things on the road last year doing 55-60km/h
Bent my rims lip, no buckle or twist. Ended up getting 1 new wheel and the damaged one is now my spare.
I had pics of it somewhere...
MadMax
23-06-2013, 06:28 AM
New tyres fitted, would have been balanced and the guy doing it would have picked up a bent wheel.
Put your spare on the corner where you think the "bent" wheel is - if the noise is still there, it's something else. CV, wheel bearing?
Needs looking at more closely, no one on this forum can see your car so everything is just a guess.
GQshorty
23-06-2013, 06:31 AM
Swap the wheels left to right and see if the noise moves
khn47
23-06-2013, 06:34 AM
Hmm who would be able to check it and know for sure? A normal tyre place?
khn47
23-06-2013, 06:36 AM
That's the thing, its not just a noise, its vibration that I feel through the floor and steering wheel, and a constant feeling that I have a flat tyre like when you have a rock in the tyre and you feel it on every rotation of the wheel
Kif 380
23-06-2013, 06:41 AM
Maybe something is bent and the place you took it to didn't pick up on it? I'd take it elsewhere for a second opinion.
khn47
23-06-2013, 06:44 AM
Hmm possible, they didnt like me much because I told them not to scratch my car and to be gentle, so possible they just didnt wanna help me
Did you get the wheel balanced after getting tyres and the accident?
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khn47
23-06-2013, 07:04 AM
Yep wheels all balanced, got a wheel alignment too
veeone
23-06-2013, 06:49 PM
Have you braked hard recently and locked the wheels up???? Might have flat spotted a tyre.......unless you have an ABS model and it works.
Had a similar vibration recently and was the inner CV joint of all things. Outer ones were new a while back so helped narrow down the problem a little. Vee
khn47
08-07-2013, 01:45 PM
All fixed!
The front tyres were out of balance even though they balanced them 3 weeks ago when I bought tyres, so they fixed it for nothing as soon as I started cracking it when they blamed me for being a rough driver.
But this wasnt the problem, it kept happening, so I found out my only recently bought shocks were stuffed... or one of them was anyway.
So all good now
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