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New Jimny wobbly wheels(balancing)
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Basically..... I've had some new all terrain tyres fitted to my new 2019 Jimny SZ5 but the place I took it said they couldn't balance them as they couldn't remove the centre caps from the alloys to allow them to fit on the shaft of the balancing machine. So as it stands my I get steering wheel judder at anything over 40.
Is this a difficult thing to remove. Does it require a special tool from Suzuki or where I took my car is just full of incompetent mechanics?
Any help or advice would be much appreciated before I try another garage that isn't suzuki.
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Best way i've found is put the wheel on floor cap facing up
Press your foot on it even as possible
Last two sets i have fitted have balance beads in them
www.devon4x4.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Balance+beads
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OctaneJimny wrote: Is this a difficult thing to remove. Does it require a special tool from Suzuki or where I took my car is just full of incompetent mechanics?
Any help or advice would be much appreciated before I try another garage that isn't suzuki.
If they look at the shelf at the side of/under the balancing machine, they will find a steel flange that has studs on. They adjust the studs to the PCD of the wheel, and fit the flange to the conical shaft of the balancer. They then bolt the wheel to it and balance it properly.
This is a lot more work, and some of them don't even know that they have the flange.
[If the shaft comes too far through the flange, then they will need to pop the centre inwards as Gadget says.]
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The small centre caps on land rover/range rover push forward out of the wheels.Soeley wrote: Surely all centre caps fit this way otherwise they would fall out whilst driving?
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The small centre caps on land rover/range rover push forward out of the wheels.Soeley wrote: Surely all centre caps fit this way otherwise they would fall out whilst driving?
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Bearing in mind, the only wheel I have removed from my Gen4 is the spare, and that was to fit a centre cap as I have removed the wheel cover.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it just the rear wheels that have the removable centre caps? So the garage would only have difficulty balancing the rear wheels if they couldn't remove them?
The front shouldn't have been a problem?
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