pissed-- rotation gone bad

[jee123]

pissed-- rotation gone bad any input appreciated

so got my tires rotated 22 yoko paradas about 6,000 miles if that...took it out on the highway, got a bad vibration...took it back to discount tire, got them re balanced, a lil better still vibrates around 70...got an alignment, it helped still get a vibe...doing bilstien hds this week...got a clunk when i put in gear so doing ujoints this week..imo everything was cool till the rotation..any thoughts.2007 lt non autoride

 

[jee123]

so turns out the original discout tire i went to didnt use the balancer made for big wheels...two of the wheels where 2 oz off and the others were a 1/4 oz. off. the d/t i went to got it str8nd out...smooth as silk

 

[kickitandholdit]

yea 1/4 off isnt noticable but 2 would be at that speed.. thats good everything turned out ok

 

[jee123]

yeah i was semi worried...the hoe was riding like shit..thought all kinds of ish was tha matter..phew..

 

[fixxxer88]

Where are you at in tx? which discount tire did you go to? so i know which one to avoid now.

 

[jee123]

in north dallas...dont go to the one on park/tollroad or coit/george bush hwy...call the store and make sure they have the right balancer to do the bigger wheels...

 

[baron]

While they don't always have the best prices on tires, I have had good luck at the Firestone place as a lot of their tires have a 30 day warranty to swap them out (or, I suppose you could possibly get your money back, but that wouldn't be very helpful if you were tireless). Our other car, 2004 Focus zx5, has somewhat odd sized tires, so I thought I would be clever and move very slightly (about 2% difference in overall size) to a more common sized tire as the tires I had on there before were discontinued. I was going to save about 150 bucks by changing sizes, talked to the Firestone folks, got the new tires, same thing you had at speed. Took them back in, rotation, balance, alignment (all for free), worked for about a day and then they were back to the same. Again, back in, all things done again, seemed to last for a few days, still no go. Finally, took it in for the third time, told them I didn't like the tires and pointed out they were part of the lines included in the 30 day thing, and left with 4 brand new, correctly sized tires. I found out later, after doing some digging, that people were having lots of problems with that first set I bought, so much so, they were being discontinued, so I think it was the tire, not the size. The set I ended up with has been rock solid (knock on wood) though.

Anyway, all that aside, good thing they got you fixed up. There is little worse than something like that happening right after you spent all that money on new tires.

 

[jee123]

discount tire has price match...so i got them to match tirerack prices for my tires..save like 50$ a tire at least maybe more it was quite a bit..they were pissed to say the least probably why the ffffd me around.