shimmy in steering wheel???

[kennyb3030]

had a nail in my front left tire yest and i had it plugged at a local tire shop. now when i reach 50- 60 mph the steering wheel starts shaking a little. not sure if they forgot to balance the tire they repaired or not? thats all that i can come up with. please help me out guys

 

[greyghost4x4]

I would agree with you. Just bring your truck back to them and tell them they need to recheck the balance of the tire.

Evan

 

[XxstuckxX]

What size are your tires? Just wondering because i have 31 inch tires and they've always shook the steering wheel when i got up to 60-70. I just figured it was because the big tires.

 

[kennyb3030]

it didn't do it all, until i got the tire plugged, so maybe i should get the tires balanced and that would solve it !

 

[2000se]

tires out of balance

no.. even though they are 31 inch tires...they should still not cause the steering wheel to vibrate. Here's the deal, every tire has a road force variant. In larger tires, this variant becomes more noticeable. Have your dealer (or who ever) do a road force balance. See if the road force variant is over 10. Getting into the double digits is bad. Anything in the single digits is very good. In smaller tires RFV can not be noticed as much.

Now in the OP message it is probably an out of balance issue seeing this is the first time he has experienced this issue with old tires. I had the same tires for 60k miles with no vibration issue what so ever. Bought new tires (same kind) and had vibration issues like mad. Finally convinced the dealer to road force balance all the tires he had until we found 4 with single digit RFV numbers. Smooth as glass again.