Ok. So I’ve given up and need some forum knowledge lol

It’s been a long week or so trying to figure out some vibrations that I get from my car. Initially I thought it was the front wheels as I was getting some vibration on the steering wheel. I went to have the fronts checked out and one of the wheels was bent (aftermarket) They fixed it and I surely thought that would fix the issue. I put them on the car along with my rear oem wheels which I know are good and it drove great. So I think I’m golden to also put my aftermarket rear wheels on. So I did and there’s the vibrations again. Now I’m like ok so I guess it has to be the rear wheels. I take those to get checked out and everything is good on them. They road force balanced all four and said tires and wheels looked good. I drove off optimistically and there the vibration again haha not as bad but definitely shaking up the side mirrors around 50mph.

What else could it be? I would think something with the car but why does not vibrate when I have the oem’s on?

Im just at a loss now. Not sure what else to try but to scrap these aftermarket wheels and stay with my oem’s.

btw, I had ran these same aftermarket wheels for almost 5 years now with no issues until now.

Any suggestions? Thank you

 

Well if the OEM rears run smoothly, it’s clear that 1) it’s the aftermarket set of wheels, and 2) you need a new tire shop.

It could be the rims, or the tires, or both… but the source of the vibration definitely seems to be the wheels.

 

What Chinee said.

 

Yeah. That definitely makes sense. I didn’t know if I was looking at things like rear axles or wheel bearings etc…

Discount Tire usually does well so I’m surprised they didn’t find anything wrong with the wheels or tires

 

Try the oem wheels all around, if that fixes the problem then it's obviously your aftermarket rims. Do you have the print off from the road force? If any rim was a challenge to road force, meaning they had to move the tire around many times to get the number low, that will indicate a bent rim. If you put the bent rim on the rear wheels should reduce the vibrations. If you have more than one bent rim then that's a bigger problem.

OEM rims are not light weight for a reason, they can take abuse better from potholes compared to light weight aftermarket wheels. This becomes more of an issue for any rim bigger than 18", because less sidewall means more force the rim absorbs.

 

When one starts tinkering with cars, you introduce the probability of all sorts of issues. Wheels, tires, and vibrations especially with prior damage + repairs are the ultimate recipe for vibrations.

So yeah return to stock. it's the right thing to do anyway. (decades of modifications here across 19 cars, including aftermarket wheels) never again...

 

Going back to stock soon and I'm just as excited to go back to stock as I was the day I modded it.

 

Couldn't agree more! If I don't like the car un-modded and the wheels on it, I don't buy it.

 

Yeah I hear you and agree. It takes too much time lol I’ll be switching to my stocks and see if I can still sell these for a few hundred to someone that wants to deal with it.

My thoughts were to replace the tires but the ones that are on are almost new. If I did that then there goes another $300 to not be sure if they will solve the issue

 

Do the aftermarket wheels sit well on the center hub? Maybe u just need hub-centric rings. Discount Tire/America's Tire have them.

https://www.americastire.com/learn/h...storeCode=1055

 

Yeah hubcentric rings are on there. I’ve had them for years that’s why I’m thinking it’s the new tires I put on there

 

This rear one just has these two small weights

The other has all these. Is that too much? Like maybe it was bent and we’re trying to balance at all costs? Lol

 

I don't think that's too much. I've seen that many on my old Camry's aftermarket wheels before. Depending on the build quality of the wheels I guess. If u've got weights all around the wheel then u got a problem.

 

Yeah that's too much, that rim is messed up. I'm sure numbers were all over the place trying to balance that rim. You'd have to bring it to a professional shop to fix these wheels, but it will probably happen again after hitting some potholes. Back to stock.

 

Try replacing just one rear at a time with a stock wheel to see if you can pinpoint the particular wheel/tire that is the issue. Once you get that figured out, you have more information to fix it. It could be a tire with a separated belt or a bent wheel.