ready for winter?

[Doggy]

Maybe you can get a good result that way, after all there's lots of these mobile fitting operations about. Never tried it myself.

Hopefully neither party got on the wrong side of the parking gestapo.......

[Welly]

Guess what?

I've got the ~~~~~~wobbles~~~~~~

Steering wheel, drivers seat.....ARRRRRGGGGHHHH.........MASSIVE pet hate and now a battle sorting it out

[DaiRees]

Oh noes, sort it out fella!

Mine's smoooooth, and I'm remembering why I prefer the 17s to the 18s (at least from inside of the car).

I had a bit of a catalogue of errors on the weekend, the sills of the car are too low for my trolley jack to go under, so I drive the front up onto small wooden ramps to get the jack under there. Changed the wheels extremely carefully not to cause damage to any wheels, then torqued up all the bolts and checked all the pressures, then finally rolled the car off the little ramp and it just touched one wheel that I'd left standing in front of the car, which wobbled and fell, shiny side down, straight onto the edge of the doorstep Not much damage but enough to piss me off!

Then I had a general underbonnet check, went to top up the screenwash, dropped the lid of the container into the engine bay I heard it land on the undertray, gone under the gearbox, didn't fall through but I can't reach it either. So now it'll either fall out somewhere on the road or it'll stay there until the next service.

[Welly]

you should'a gone back to bed after the wheel fell over. What a f*cker though I hate that, wave goodbye to that lid it can FRO...........and get caught up in the cam belt ..............only joking

Just rang the Tyre place; they're coming out this afternoon to do all four wheels again - said they don't normally have a problem so apologised and said they will get to the bottom of it. To be fair they are contracted to the AA so I'd have thought the standard needs to be good.

Trouble is my car is *very* sensitive to balancing/tyres, I dunno, they were fine last year on the car. Watch this space.

[steve_earwig]

Oh lordy, trials and tribbleasians

[Welly]

Right, all four have been re-balanced by a different mobile chap (same firm) and all four were about 20g out. He said it looked like they'd been 'static' balanced and may have had the wrong size entered into the machine (18" instead of 17").

They've all been 'fully balanced' so I should be all good now, I'll see on the way home......

I reckon these blokes are run ragged, the one I just met said he'd been on calls since 03:00 am so they do long days and fly about all over in the crazy traffic, hat's off to them I guess it's easy to make mistakes under the circumstances.

[Welly]

All seems fine to me now, not been on the Motorway but something similar and nice and smooth.

Funny when you're looking for a wobble/vibration all your senses are on red alert and EVERYTHING seems to vibrate

[steve_earwig]

Hopefully that's an end to it (until the spring...)

Cars do vibrate, it's just deciding what level is normal and what isn't. I'm the same with noises, having heard various things failing over the years I find I'm always listening out for them. e.g. the yoyo clatters and bangs over potholes, this seems to be fairly normal for them but I'm always listening to it in case a drop link or something is on its way out. Not that I care much about the car but I wouldn't like to be driving something dangerous.