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Originally Posted by Hans Moleman
I hope the OP doesn't mind me sharing my experience in this thread instead of starting a new one. This seems like the central thread for this issue.
It looks like my ordeal is better but not completely over yet with my Goodyear Ultra Terrains.
So this morning I took it to a mom & pop type shop that has a Hunter road force balancer and the Haweka adapter.
Good news:
3 tires balance good. 9, 9, & 16lbs of road force after force matching to get the lowest road force. The lowest road force tires put to the front and no more steering wheel shake at all. I'm totally not used how the steering wheel doesn't shake anymore
Bad news:
1 bad tire. It has 41lbs of road force. It's so bad that it couldn't be force matched. So this is still causing the rest of the vehicle to shake that can be felt in the seats. Now I have to get America's Tire to replace this bad tire.
It goes to show you have to find a competent shop that knows how to road force balance with the Haweka adapter. It sucks I had to pay another shop to figure this out, but I coudnl't afford to waste any more time after numerous rebalancing from America's Tire.
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Thanks for sharing your story, unfortunately I've called well over 20 shops by now and none of them have the adapter. Even the mom and pop shop I went to which specializes in Toyotas, dont have it.
So today I did a road trip to California and drove several hundred miles. First time driving the T4R for that amount of miles.
Before leaving I pumped tires up to 36psi, and had zero wobble. Completely gone.
However the high frequency vibration was still there and it drove me nuts!! Kept putting my hands to sleep and I had to constantly keep switching between hands for the entire trip.
Weird thing is that sometimes it would completely go away even at the same speed, and same stretch of highway, and then it would return and be really bad.
I dont know what to make of it but this trip has me seriously considering getting rid of this vehicle.
Sad because I do love it.
Thanks to everyone so far who has giving me feedback.