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Originally Posted by rsimi72
Did you replace or reuse your stock tires?
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No, I swapped to K02's.
The bridgestones are obviously smoother. I knew the K02s would be a little harsher and have more road noise, but this is different. It's a bad vibration at highway speeds and like I said earlier, it's not consistent.
I know what an unbalanced tire rides/feels like, and this isn't the same. I know what a tire with a broken belt feels like. This isn't like that either.
It's almost like the additional stiffness from the tire, combined with a weight change and the stiff suspension gives a weird travel/rebound harmonic and at times it's really bad and other times it's nearly non-existent (all while cruise is set at 75mph). It's as if small imperfections in the road that cause the suspension to work, are overly harsh/stiff suspension vibration.
Either way, I should have just stuck with the OR wheels and put the BFG's on them. The heavier wheel soaks up some of the harmonics I think.