Bent wheels?

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Benjawan Kuecharoenwong wrote:

> 		I just coming back from new year vacation. We take
> 	our S4 along with us for 2000 KMs. At our destination the
> 	weather is cold and our S4 love it.
> 		But the problem was after going through the bad road
> 	for 80Km the steering shaked, we thought the balancing weights
> 	drop off from the front wheels,so we decide to stop at the 
> 	tyre shop..and the result ??? all of ABT 17" wheels are out of
> 	round.!! why are they so soft..? may be we have to go back to
> 	15" or 16" rims.
> 		Is it possible to repair those wheels ?

Benjawan,

	Be careful not to jump to conclusions.  I have seen wheels "out 
of round" on a tire machine (the proprieter claiming it was absolutely 
necessary to replace the $X00.00 Corvette wheel, of course) ony to find 
out later that their machine was not true.  There are very FEW tire 
balancing machines in Michigan that actually have tooling that is true!  
I would take it to another balancing shop that has a better reputation, 
and then I still wouldn't trust them until they did a good job.  One 
thing to try, if they will cooperate, is to turn the wheel 90 degrees on 
the balancer, then balance it again.  This may show up if the machine is 
true or not.

	I would think those ABT wheels would be very strong.  Don't chuck 
'emm just yet.

Later,								
Graydon D. Stuckey								
graydon@apollo.gmi.edu								
'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, GDS Racing Stage II				
'85 Mazda RX7 GS 12A-leaning-towards-a-13B-soon