164LS wheel balance: me too!

["Doll, Karl" <Karl.Doll@xxxxxxxx>]

	Me too! Balance problem that the tire shop could not fix. Though I
didn't do as much as Colin to hunt down the problem, it is a very reputable
shop (Wheel Works in Mtn View, California)

	'95 164LS, 35K miles, Pirelli P6000

> "Birkett, Graham" <GS-Birkett@domain.elided> writes:
> > My '91L used to do it until I found someone who could balance the wheels
> on
> > the car. This gave a 90% fix. However my 'new' '94LS also does it and a
> > recent on car balance has made no detectable improvement. I'm beginning
> to
> > suspect tyre ovality, maybe in conjunction with a worn shocker?
> 
> My '94 also has a vibration. It comes on at 45mph (70kph) and goes away
> at 55mph (90kph). Above this speed it's as smooth as glass. It seems worse
> when the tires are cold. The tires are new (AVSi) and just balanced. It
> happened on the old tires too (AVSi). On-car balancing didn't help then.
> Wheels were checked for out-of-round. The rear shocks have been replaced.
> I'd love to find an answer to this problem as it's been bothering me for
> some time now. I'm beginning to think that it's just a reaction of the LS
> suspension to the AVSi tires...
> 
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