Jester1994
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- July 22, 2002
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- City, State
- Franklin, MA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '16 Explorer Sport
Hey guys, I bought 31x10.5 BFG All Terrains new from Sears a year ago from last Nov. So they've been on my rig for a year and a few months. They probably have a good 15,000 mil eson them, driving across the country and back this summer too. I have been known to do the occasional donut or two during a snow storm and do some light off-roading. However, I had some higway shakes about a month ago and I thought it would be my alightment or something. But I have a friend that works at sears and I get free wheel balancing anyway, so I went there.
He took off the tires and started to balance them, a few very really off balance, however, even on the tire rotation/balancing machine, they wobbled. He re-adjusted them several times, and it wasn't the rim. The actual tires of my Explorer (2 VERY noticable, and 2 slightly) were actually warped and would wobble back and forth when spinning on the balancing machine.
Has anyone heard of this? I Could have had two tires warrantied and received new ones there, but I didn't want to put new tires on with my AWD system comapred to the 2 older ones that had sme tread worn off. I just thought it was insane that my tires were warped and that wobbly on a machine....VERY noticable.
But the balancing did get rid of most of the highway shakes, so that is good, it is only slightly there, but of course that is the tire itself!
He took off the tires and started to balance them, a few very really off balance, however, even on the tire rotation/balancing machine, they wobbled. He re-adjusted them several times, and it wasn't the rim. The actual tires of my Explorer (2 VERY noticable, and 2 slightly) were actually warped and would wobble back and forth when spinning on the balancing machine.
Has anyone heard of this? I Could have had two tires warrantied and received new ones there, but I didn't want to put new tires on with my AWD system comapred to the 2 older ones that had sme tread worn off. I just thought it was insane that my tires were warped and that wobbly on a machine....VERY noticable.
But the balancing did get rid of most of the highway shakes, so that is good, it is only slightly there, but of course that is the tire itself!
