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Just bought some new rims two weeks ago and had them balanced etc.

Few days ago i noticed that when driving at 100km/h or more that the steering wheel is shaking heaps. Im guessing this is a wheel balance problem, now to the question.

Is there a special way to balance or align the steering on r33 skylines due to the 4 wheel steering etc?

Anyone recommend a place to get it done?

The car is has standard suspension etc.

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Umm no, sounds like a wheel balance problem still. Wheel balance problems generally manifest themselves most at around 90-110km/h depending on the car/rim/tyre. Id say you need to get them rebalanced.

Perhaps one of the new weights they put on has fallen off?

Or they dont know what theyre doing.

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I wouldn't be getting rid of the HICAS.. Tyrepower in Canning Vale can align the 4ws properly - they've had enough practice with pauls car.. :mad:

BUT - I would agree with red - it's a wheel balance problem by the sounds - not an alignment problem..

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i have a similar problem and no matter how many times my wheels get balanced in aligned it doesnt get rid of it. Mine is at 120km/hr (not that i do that often :Paranoid: umm yeah strictly country roads)

Weird thing is ..... it wont do it at 115km ..... and when you get to 125km it stops ...... its just when it hits that 120km hr the steering wheel becomes a shaking shuddering mess.

:confused:

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When my car got here from japan it had a very bad vibration at over 80km/hr. they aligned/balanced the wheels during compliance but it was still playing up. in the end it was the tailshaft, we pulled it out and had all 3 uni-joints in it machined out and replaced and all was fine again. But it does sound like an alignment problem, get that done first as its cheaper than pulling the tailshaft off and getting that fixed, to give you an idea it was $120/joint and there was 3 joints... not to mention the time taken to remove the tailshaft.

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Alright thanks guys.

First plan is to take it back where i got it balanced the first time and do it again, they didn't do it right i think so they can have another go. If that doesnt work then might try the canning vale tyre power.

Otherwise pray to god the driveshaft isn't warped or whatever.

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i would vouch for tyrepower in canning vale as well.

they take like an hour to do it

and they do say that they cant do it 100000% because of the hicas.

but goddamn i drove my car for yonks afterwards and it never shuddered, vibrated, moved left or right of its own accord.

it was perfect. especially compared to before

go to them

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Sounds like a HICAS problem (4-wheel steer). Get it removed ASAP; it likes to alter the back end when you want it least.

Shouldn't you at least drive a Skyline with HICAS, and understand how it works, before you start recommending surgery like this? Not that HICAS is gods gift (hey, I removed mine this week), but its sounds like you're flying by night here...

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