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Old Apr 12, 2011 | 04:00 PM
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From: GTA
Default Re: Problems I can't figure out

I would get the balancing of each wheel/tire assembly double checked. I'd be there to watch it being done, too. A bent rim doesn't necessarily result only in a "wobble". Hitting a good sized pothole can bend a rim so that it develops a "hop". Sometimes the wheel doesn't wobble and it can be successfully balanced. Still, if it has been smacked and has a hop in it on the balancing machine it can otherwise seem to be fine. An untrained eye might not catch it or worse, an untrained operator might not worry about a "hop" if the rim/tire assembly can be successfully balanced. In my experience that kind of hop, if it exists, is not the tire.

It doesn't mean that the wheel needs to be replaced either. Usually the rim can be straightened.

Keep us all posted on this issue that you're having, please.
 

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