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Vibration at specific speeds

Scram1500 said:
Where did you get them from? When I got my Michelins the guy at the shop said don't be surprised if they are tricky to balance, he had noticed a decline in quality across the board. I got them from Amazon and dealing with the return wouldn't have made sense financially.

Good luck, let us know how it works out
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I got mine from Discount with certificates. I've bought a lot of tires from this location over the years and they've been good to me service wise, so i'm not too concerned at the moment. More curious what they want to do as the next step as i've never been down this road before.

My other option that I was leaning heavily towards were the Continental Terrain Contact H/T. A nail in my tire Saturday, the Michelin's being in stock and my previous experience with the LTX line ultimately pushed me to make the decision this weekend. Worst case I suppose I could exercise Discount's return policy and swap them for the Conti's.
 
uncc_99xj said:
Update on mine: road force balancing did the trick. The particular Discount I go to has the ability to do it in situations like this, so now I know to ask for it going forward on these tires.
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I only ever have road force balencing done. If a shop doesn't have the machine I will not go there.
The hunter branded ones you can lookup on their website which shops have them in the area.

Find Hunter Equipment | Hunter Engineering Company®

Find a shop near you equipped to safely and reliably service your vehicle.
www.hunter.com www.hunter.com
 
Ok so this is driving me nuts. Truck is still having vibrations between 52-55 mph pretty consistently. So I took it into a different shop than where I got the tires because they had a Road Force Elite per the Hunter website. They said the wheels were about 1/2oz out of balance but not much and one wheel just barely failed the road force eval. I did not pay the like $300+ to have them to the full road force balancing procedure and they recommended not doing it. They said the tire that just barely failed was front passenger and they moved it to rear passenger to see if that helps the vibration in the mean time.

Problem persists without any discernable change. So I took it back to the shop I got the tires from, within a week of this last shop and told them what they told me. They checked it out and said the wheels were "way out of balance" to the tune of nearly 5oz and none of the tires had any notable out of rounding. They claim they took it out for a spin and didn't notice any vibration. So all that was done was rebalance them.

I haven't picked up the truck but I have a strong suspicion this issue is not going to be fixed since the previous 3 rotate and balances (two with this same shop) had no impact on the vibration...

Picking it up tomorrow so we'll see how it works...
 

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My Ram 1500 4wd had a u joint fail at 46k miles and it gave the exact same symptoms as yours for a long time before it became obvious what it was.
 
smashweights said:
Ok so this is driving me nuts. Truck is still having vibrations between 52-55 mph pretty consistently. So I took it into a different shop than where I got the tires because they had a Road Force Elite per the Hunter website. They said the wheels were about 1/2oz out of balance but not much and one wheel just barely failed the road force eval. I did not pay the like $300+ to have them to the full road force balancing procedure and they recommended not doing it. They said the tire that just barely failed was front passenger and they moved it to rear passenger to see if that helps the vibration in the mean time.

Problem persists without any discernable change. So I took it back to the shop I got the tires from, within a week of this last shop and told them what they told me. They checked it out and said the wheels were "way out of balance" to the tune of nearly 5oz and none of the tires had any notable out of rounding. They claim they took it out for a spin and didn't notice any vibration. So all that was done was rebalance them.

I haven't picked up the truck but I have a strong suspicion this issue is not going to be fixed since the previous 3 rotate and balances (two with this same shop) had no impact on the vibration...

Picking it up tomorrow so we'll see how it works...
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I'm still in the same boat. Discount tire has roadforce balanced my wheels/tires 3 times, assuring me they are balanced. I noticed today that I have a significant shake at 44 mph, then it goes away as I speed up and then I notice a shake again around 57 mph. it is very frustrating. There has to be something out of whack causing it. My truck only has 5100 miles on it now. Tires are brand new Hankook Dynapro's. Someone somewhere has to know what we should check.
 
firemedic10584 said:
I'm still in the same boat. Discount tire has roadforce balanced my wheels/tires 3 times, assuring me they are balanced. I noticed today that I have a significant shake at 44 mph, then it goes away as I speed up and then I notice a shake again around 57 mph. it is very frustrating. There has to be something out of whack causing it. My truck only has 5100 miles on it now. Tires are brand new Hankook Dynapro's. Someone somewhere has to know what we should check.
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Why not take it to the dealer and have them use their nvh tool to isolated it. There is also a DTCM update on some models for a noise that has fixed a few vibration concerns.
 
Cbty2050 said:
Why not take it to the dealer and have them use their nvh tool to isolated it. There is also a DTCM update on some models for a noise that has fixed a few vibration concerns.
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I did - they said they don't feel anything. But I can watch my stomach fat jiggle around when I'm driving at those speeds lol
 
In my case, I ended up having one more re-balance done since my previous post as the vibrations weren't quite gone like I thought. This time I went to a brand new Discount in town with all brand new equipment, and those guys were able to get it sorted out. It came down to measuring the high spot in both the wheel and tire, then mounting the tire so that it's high spot was 180* off of the wheel's high spot. From there, it took just a little bit of weight to get everything nice and smooth. It was down to one wheel/tire that was causing all of the vibration, but they ended up doing this to all 4 to be safe. It's been nice and smooth since then.
 
smashweights said:
Well driven it about 30 miles and there's still no change whatsoever with the new balance. Back she is gonna go... 🤬
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Might be solved if they un-mount and re-mount with the high point of the tire and wheel 180 degrees from each other as mentioned by @uncc_99xj , or you ended up up with crap tires. No amount of balancing can fix a poorly made tire. Also, not that this is the cause but will make it worse, your shocks might be worn out
 
I'm taking my truck to the dealer tomorrow - I am told there are certain updates to the computer or something that can be pushed through which could fix vibration issues. Something to do with certain shift points or something. My local discount tire road-forced balanced mine and swear they are balanced correctly. Definitely frustrating.
 
They might be balanced, but aren't round or have stiff spots in the sidewall. You can balance a square spinning in space but doesn't make it possible to drive with
 
Scram1500 said:
They might be balanced, but aren't round or have stiff spots in the sidewall. You can balance a square spinning in space but doesn't make it possible to drive with
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True - my tires are brand new though. I thought previously it was my Nitto Ridge Grapplers which I bought used with 10k miles or so on them. So I got rid of those and got a new set of Hankook DynaPros which were a bit less aggressive thinking maybe the tread design was causing it. But the vibration remains in mine. Doesn't do it on all roads, doesn't do it at the same speeds all the time. But just annoying af that it happens on every drive though. I'm hopeful maybe the dealer will finally find something tomorrow. I'm taking it back in for another alignment as well even though I don't feel like that's the issue.
 
Reading through one of the older posts about vibration issues, some said they upped their tire pressures to 40-42 and noticed a decrease in the vibration. I believe mine are currently set to 38-39. I'm going to increase mine and see if it makes any difference.
 
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