Steering Shimmy-where to get balance around Dallas?
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Steering Shimmy-where to get balance around Dallas?
Ive got the shakes, i mean my car, & I'm wondering who has had a good experience with a shop around here that can balance my tires. I live in Mckinney & work in Grand prairie, so my range is pretty much 2/3 of DFW.
I checked into Discount to get road forced, but they tell you one price over the phone & one in person, and then when you show up, the machine's broken & they didn't bother to tell you before you drove over there. I don't have much if ANY faith in them but I'll go there if I have to.
Has anyone had any luck fixing this problem by just balancing? The cars got 99500 on it so I'm not ruling anything out just yet, but before I start adjusting things, I wanna make sure the tires/wheels are indeed not the problem by getting a good balance & maybe alignment (although tire wear is very even).
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I checked into Discount to get road forced, but they tell you one price over the phone & one in person, and then when you show up, the machine's broken & they didn't bother to tell you before you drove over there. I don't have much if ANY faith in them but I'll go there if I have to.
Has anyone had any luck fixing this problem by just balancing? The cars got 99500 on it so I'm not ruling anything out just yet, but before I start adjusting things, I wanna make sure the tires/wheels are indeed not the problem by getting a good balance & maybe alignment (although tire wear is very even).
thanks
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I had my wheels/tires balanced with the Hunter 9700 at Discount Tire located at the Tollway and Park. I think it was like $100 with a lifetime rebalance. They had to totally remove all my tires from the rims and it looked like a real pain. After watching them sweat doing it, I did not mind paying the $100. After that, my car drove perfect.
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Were they quoting you balance on the Hunter 9700 and a lifetime re-balance for all four tires? I thought it was a good deal considering the time and effort it took them. This was not just throwing some weights on there.
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they said "you only need to road force once, then we'll spin balance to re-balance" & I thought that was pretty lame, so this was just a regular one time road force. Around where I work, its $3 to spin balance a tire, so paying extra for THAT doesnt make too much sense.
My tires are about 60% gone, so when I get new ones I'll get the real-lifetime road force, unless they'll carry the lifetime to my next set of tires. I know firestone will only give you a lifetime balance if you buy thier tires.
My tires are about 60% gone, so when I get new ones I'll get the real-lifetime road force, unless they'll carry the lifetime to my next set of tires. I know firestone will only give you a lifetime balance if you buy thier tires.
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