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Offline Agreeable Slick

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Re: Vibrations at high speed
« Reply #10 on: 05 April 2024, 04:23 »
Just an FYI - Seat vibration usually (but not in all cases) points towards the back end of the car being the issue, so if you are going to check wheels any further then I'd advise to start there. It was where the issue was in my case.

Offline jh_97

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Re: Vibrations at high speed
« Reply #11 on: 08 April 2024, 21:21 »
All sorted after a wheel balance. I had my tyres done through mobile fitting, which should have included the wheel balancing, but the store manager said I'm the 7th person of the week who clearly did not have wheels balanced during mobile fitment from that branch ...
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Re: Vibrations at high speed
« Reply #12 on: 09 April 2024, 18:57 »
Perhaps the mobile fitter was more used to doing truck tyres. Poor show but glad to hear it was all sorted easily  :smiley:
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