Tyre/road force balancing in Dublin

Ardent

Can anyone recommend a good place in Dublin to get tyres balanced and aligned?

Had both sets of tyres balanced recently and still getting vibration on the motorway which is driving me slowly insane!

I hear a "road force" balance is a sure fire way to identify issues that otherwise might get missed - is there a garage with one of these machines in Dublin?

Dero

As far as I know, the only place around Dublin is Frank Keane Volkswagen in Liffey Valley.

I got my wheels balanced with their road-force setup recently. It's not a VAG car, but they had no problem doing it and in fact were very friendly and professional.

Bigus

Ardent wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good place in Dublin to get tyres balanced and aligned?

Had both sets of tyres balanced recently and still getting vibration on the motorway which is driving me slowly insane!

I hear a "road force" balance is a sure fire way to identify issues that otherwise might get missed - is there a garage with one of these machines in Dublin?

It might be a hop or a flat spot on one or more tyres.

Neilw

Discount tyres in Blanchardstown also have a road force balancer.

corks finest

Ardent wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a good place in Dublin to get tyres balanced and aligned?

Had both sets of tyres balanced recently and still getting vibration on the motorway which is driving me slowly insane!

I hear a "road force" balance is a sure fire way to identify issues that otherwise might get missed - is there a garage with one of these machines in Dublin?

Check your disc

stimpson

Neilw wrote: »

Discount tyres in Blanchardstown also have a road force balancer.

Discount tyres is always the answer. I had wheels that wouldn't balance. I went to 2 or 3 places until I went to Discount tyres. They reckon someone just added more weights instead of removing the old ones and starting from scratch. Also noticed that spigots were missing and offered to source some for me (had them in the garage. Wheels were perfect after that.

Bluebeard99

Resurrecting this old thread - who is high quality and honest for tyre balancing in Dublin?

My motor dealer has taken the car to do this three times; the first two made no difference, the third improved matters but it is still vibrating above 100 kph.

Background resonant vibration at motorway speed is very annoying. The latest "balancing" exercise helped, but reduced the peak from occurring at around 113 kph to 103 kph.

Tyres fwiw are Kapsten K3000 Rassurer.

XsApollo

What car is it?

it’s not always wheel balancing.

i went through trying to diagnose my own Audi A6, so maybe this could apply to a few different VAG cars.

i changed alloys to OEM , changed tyres to expensive Pirelli’s, balanced in many different places, drove to Dublin to go to discount tyres for the road force balancer all over the course of months and each time it changed the frequency of the wobble, but nothing fixed it.

eventually someone told me inner CV joints. So I ordered a new pair of non OEM drive shafts from Germany, great reviews and being a German company was thinking great, but no they were brutal massive vibration under acceleration,

eventually got a pair of OEM drive shafts from a breakers and the difference was night and day, nice and smooth after that.

Core6

I used Discount Tyres in Blanchardstown recently and they were great.

I would be very suspicious of those tyres though.

It might just be impossible to balance them.

I would strongly recommend getting a decent set of tyres -- in terms of car tyres brand names DO matter.

bazz26

Tyres fwiw are Kapsten K3000 Rassurer.

^^

This might be where the problem lies. Poor quality budget tyres can be crap and can be attributed to what you are experiencing.