hilux wobble
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croozza
Active Member
It will be either - wheel balance or tyre. Check the tyre by running the palm of your hand around the tread, if it is not smooth and you can see feathering of the tread edge then you can either rotate the tyres, or put up with it till you get some new ones, if it is not there then check if the rim hasn't thrown a weight off, if there is no weight on the rim get the tyres balanced again.
millsy
4x4 Earth Contributer
It could also be what they call 'run-out'. That's when a tyre is not perfectly round. I had a big problem with wheel vibrations on a Commodore. I got the tyres balanced and it still did not fix the prolem. Eventually I asked them to check if the tyre was round, and sure enough, as it was spinning on the balancing machine you could see that the shoulder was vibrating in and out as it was spinning.
This tyre looked OK in every way - plenty of tread and no obvious wear marks.
You could probably pick it yourself, if that was the problem, just by spinning the wheel on your car before you loosen any of the wheel nuts!
This tyre looked OK in every way - plenty of tread and no obvious wear marks.
You could probably pick it yourself, if that was the problem, just by spinning the wheel on your car before you loosen any of the wheel nuts!
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bmurray2250
4x4 Earth Contributer
My old and worn out BFG's started doing that. Replaced the tyres and fixed it. Did a balance prior to the replacement and that didn't help.
LUXury
New Member
cheers for all the replies guys.
checked all wheels and seemed fine so rotated all 4, front back and left to right.
just went up to northlakes and back and no more wobble so an easy fix after all.
lucky for rookies like myself that this forum exists and is full of helpfull knowledgable people.
thanks again
checked all wheels and seemed fine so rotated all 4, front back and left to right.
just went up to northlakes and back and no more wobble so an easy fix after all.
lucky for rookies like myself that this forum exists and is full of helpfull knowledgable people.
thanks again