RE: Steering Wheel Vibrations

["Giller,Bruce C." <bgiller@xxxxxxxxx>]

	I need to get the front wheels of the Spider balanced on the car.  No
amount of high tech off-car balancing have solved the problem.  And I've
found a local shop that has one guy who has mastered this almost lost
art.  My Spider rides glass-smooth on their balanced tires.

	Bruce

	'73 GTV
	'86 Spider

> Yup, wheel balance is most likely the culprit.
> 
> Usually starts somewhere between 50 and 60 MPH, and will go away at higher
> speeds. Why it behaves this way I don't know, but it does.
> 
> One word of advice ... try to find a shop that has a wheel balancer
> (dynamic, anything else is a waste of time and money) whose main business is
> not tires. Tire shops beat on their equuipment 10 hours a day six (or more)
> days a week, and seldom (if ever) calibrate the equipment.
> 
> I've also seen guys at tire shops not check the balance. IOW, the wheel is
> mounted on the machine, old weights removed, spun, new weights added. Some
> guys will stop here and remove the wheel from the machine. The wheel should
> be spun a second time on the machine and should come up 000 indicating that
> it is balanced and requires no additional weight.
> 
> High speed balancing is a misnomer ... once a wheel is balanced (statically
> or dynamically) it is balanced at all speeds.
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