Got my Gti wheels, but have a problem!

NickP · Post by **NickP** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:57 pm

Hey everyone, need some help! Just got myself some polo gti wheels. I was after kyalami wheels at first, like on the SE. Wasn't too keen on the gti ones. But they grew on me, and they look good now they're fitted.

Went down to Montys Wheels and Tyres. By the way i would really reccomend this place to you. They specialise in OE Wheels for VW, Audi Mercedees etc. Theyre a nice little family business, who don't talk any bullsh*t. Good prices and Will deliver for free.

Anyways they fitted the wheels for me and they seemed ok. But i've noticed that between the speeds of about 55 and 75 i get quite a lot of vibration in my steering wheel. The wierd thing is when you get to about 80 it seems to be fine.

Unfortunately i had to be somewhere so i didn't have time to go back to the shop (which is a long way from where i live). I rang the guy up and he said that he wasn't sure why i was having problems but it sounded like the balancing was out. He assured me that they had all been balanced correctly that same day. He said that if i took them to charlie browns and get them checked out he'd pick up the bill if they needed rebalancing.

Anyways i got them all checked and sure enough the balancing is fine. But i still get the same problem!! Has anyone got any ideas.

Please help!

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:28 pm

is you car lowered? tyres all the same? errm i know it sounds silly, but have you tested to see if all wheels are properley tightened?
-Ben-

NickP · Post by **NickP** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:37 pm

its totally standard, not lowered. Wheels are brand new and its got brand new falken (made by dunlop) tyres. Its all definately tightened. Saying that, you know those metal cap thingys that fit on the end of your rear axel, i managed to bend that out of shape a bit. but the wheel still went on ok.

By the way what is that for

NickP · Post by **NickP** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:39 pm

someone told me that sometimes your tyres need balancing several times to get them spot on. Is that true?

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:43 pm

Good point!, most garages i go to always say, "come back here in 300 miles or so and i'll re-balance them for you"
so i would suggest you go down that road and see if that solves the problem.
good luck
-Ben-

NickP · Post by **NickP** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:51 pm

they do seem to be a bit better after charlie browns looked at them, but they did this from new

PhilGTi · Post by **PhilGTi** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:10 pm

Might just be totally wrong here but parhaps one of the wheels isnt fully circle, they are just replicas and something might have gone wrong?

Phill

NickP · Post by **NickP** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:43 am

I think its definately balancing, cos it has got all the symtoms. It doesn't seem to be very noticeable now, was very noticable on the motorway at first.

It couldn't be anything else like tracking could it?

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:21 pm

i always have my tracking done everytime i get new tyres because it tends to change after a certain amount of time (probably the suspension isn't helping much being so bumpy)
only notice it when the tyre wear becomes un-even over a longer period of time than you are experiencing.
-Ben-