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Death Wobble from unbalanced tires

MarkO

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New 37’s went on the JL. DW when hitting a bump. America’s Tire didn’t balance three of four tires correctly with front passenger being the worst. I thought I’d post the video to show how unbalanced tires contribute to the wobble if anyone’s curious.



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I had this same issue, I knocked off a couple weights during a camping trip and had a couple weeks of chasing it down. Had the alignment shop check everything and after going back and fourth a couple times they checked the tires. Ended up putting beads in them and haven’t had an issue since.
 

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I had a developed a bit of steering wheel shimmy at between 40-45 mph but nothing like death wobble. Had the tires rebalanced and no problems since.
 

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Find Tire shop that knows how to do road force balancing correctly...thank me later ;)
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