Pete Jensen
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who can tell me anything about my 2016 1500 vibrating at 80mph. Roads were smooth. Thanks
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who can tell me anything about my 2016 1500 vibrating at 80mph. Roads were smooth. Thanks
Don't assume that the tires were balanced; lots of places will do a rotate without a balance, which in my humble opinion, is idiotic and extremely lazy. You've got the tire off - how hard is it to put it on a machine and press a button, for God's sake!
Did you retorque the lug nuts? Shops have become increasingly lazy when it comes to tightening lug nuts, especially after a tire rotation.
I'd look there too. I'm not sure what the torque specs are for a 1500 vs a 2500
Most shops also request the customer to return for a re-torque after having wheels removed. Most people never return for it though.
I agree 100%. I haven't bought any Goodyear tires in awhile but I remember having to explain to the tech about lining up the yellow dot with the valve stem to get the most optimum balance and he thought I was crazy. As I recall they also are supposed to do that with a Road force balance. For God sakes if you ever get a good balance on all four tires leave em alone. The concept of needing to rebalance tires at every rotation was a money making scam tire retailers came up with back in the 90's to keep people coming back in hopes of luring them into other purchases. Same goes for needing an alignment every time you buy tires. If you aren't having problems with steering or tire wear don't waste your time or your money.I had a vibration at right around 80 mph on my truck. I had new bridgstone tires from Firestone, with a lifetime rotation, balance and alignment. I was doing by brakes and noticed there were 16+ oz of weights on each of the wheels...
I brought it in and had them remove all the weights, rotate each of the tires 180* on the wheels, then rebalance. All 4 zero'ed out with less than 4 oz of weight.
They didn't want to do what I asked. I had them do 1, and if I was wrong, they were free to stop. But after the first one with 18 oz of weight dropped down to 3 oz they had no leg to stand on.
Whoever mounted and balanced my tires at Firestone initially was lazy. When you are putting that much weight on a wheel it should have set up red flags.
Step one with that much weight, rotate the tire on the wheel, if that doesn't work, try another tire on that wheel, if that doesn't work, balance the wheel without the tire to see if the issue is the wheel.
Shops are getting lazy. Well, maybe lazy is the wrong word, they are being pushed to minimize the bay time to increase number of vehicles serviced. This is at the expense of doing good work...
Any chance it could have something to do with the 5.7 Hemi? I sure love that motor.
I agree 100%. I haven't bought any Goodyear tires in awhile but I remember having to explain to the tech about lining up the yellow dot with the valve stem to get the most optimum balance and he thought I was crazy. As I recall they also are supposed to do that with a Road force balance. For God sakes if you ever get a good balance on all four tires leave em alone. The concept of needing to rebalance tires at every rotation was a money making scam tire retailers came up with back in the 90's to keep people coming back in hopes of luring them into other purchases. Same goes for needing an alignment every time you buy tires. If you aren't having problems with steering or tire wear don't waste your time or your money.