ok so since i brought my car ive had a problem with this buckled wheel . when i brought it it was balenced in such a way that you didnt notice it.
What makes you think that the wheel WAS buckled when you got the car? It is incredibly difficult to balance out any wheel buckling. Have you actually seen where the buckle is on the actual wheel?
since then ive had a tyre change and now cant get the balance right.
Tyres! Tyres are far more attributable to 'wheel' imbalance than an actual wheel. Cheap shyte tyres are notoriously more difficult to correctly balance.
Second comment - how do you know that the muppet tyre fitter didn't buckle your wheel with a tyre lever? Easily done on 'soft' alloys.
For a method to try and rectify it, get the tyre fitter to deflate the tyre, break the beads, and rotate the tyre 90 degrees relative to the rim, reinflate, and try balancing again.
Oh, and ask when their wheel balancer was last calibrated! If they have no valid CalCert, demand they use another wheel balancer which IS calibrated (either at their own site, or at another branch), or take it elsewere, and recharge them. (And inform Trading Standards too
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so i go down the motorway like im riding over cats eyes. only noticable at 80mph or thereabouts.
Sounds bad, but that speed is actually more conducive of bad tyres rather than a wheel buckle. Buckled wheels tend to show at much lower speeds - 30 to 50mph. What make tyres are you using?
the problem is the wheels have turned out to be replicas with no marking as to who produced them. i want to trace the company and buy just the one alloy. there machined front monza (replica) with black painted insets , not dark i mean actual painted black like the mk6 gti's
anyone seen or heard of any places selling these?>?
They look like blatant replicas to me - should have been apparent when you bough the car. Anyway, lecture over, try contacting the previous owner, or maybe PM one of the forum members here - I think he is the Wheelman, or sommat similar.
HTH
