I bought some brand new Hankook Icebears for my evo back in December of 2006. I had them mounted to my stock evo 8 rims. Soon after I had them mounted we had a bad snow storm in Illinois and I ended up hitting a curb and going over it which bent the lip on one of my rims and scratched the outer edge of another rim. I was worried about my alignment after that so I checked out and all was fine. I even had the car realigned to spec. About a week after that I bent another rim hitting a pothole made of ice while driving down the road. I didn't know that rim was bend right away but I did notice a slight wobbling effect in my steering wheel at speeds above 60mph. It was very slight, only 1-2 degrees. I was told my a fellow driver that my rear wheel was wobbling, hence the wobbling in my steering wheel. This was the wheel that hit the pothole and I tried to have it balanced out but the entire wheel was warped. I bought 2 new evo 8 rims from evo dave to repalce the 2 damaged ones. The rims were not in perfect condition because they had a few scratches and gouges on the lip but they were in better shape than my 1 warped rims and my other rim with a bent lip. I had discount tire swap tha tires off my old rims and mount them on my 2 new ones and I also had them rebalance all 4 wheels again. Now I do not have any out of balance wheels but my steering wheel still vibrates at speeds above 60 mph. However this wobble is not consistent. It seems to wobble more when it cold outside and when I'm driving on the highway for long periods of time the wobble goes away. Other times the wobble seems to be intermittent. One again the wobble is slight maybe 3-5 degrees back and forth and I only notice it when my hand is off the wheel. Now I just mounted my summer rims to my car which are evo 9 rims with stock advans and there is not wobble at all. Could it be the tires that are causing this? Has anyone had similar problems with the icebears or any other snow tires?

 

I had the same issue, it turned out to be a difference in the height of the tread on the tires caused by the balance being off for a small amount of time.

 

Since you hit so many things with the tires, curbs, poteholes...ect. There was prob a inperfection in the actual tire, not the rim, either a blown belt, or messed up tread.

 

Hmm, pretty interesting....Is it worth replacing if they are just winter tires?

 

i have this same issue right now.

This is what I think it is.

The tires are shot. My advans need replacing which I will be doing soon.

Here is my symptoms

steering feels funky when cold start cruising, basically leaving my neighborhood. Then the steering wheels shakes some what at highway speed 60 or so

I think I need a few things that will cure this

Tires, alignment, balancing.


I think it does it when its cold because the tires are soft and have been sitting all night in one direction. This might just be an advan issue. I'm not sure.

 

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Three posts?

 

Most likely the two tires on the front were both a little bit out of balance. Maybe you didn't get a perfect balance. It happens.

Since no two tires are exacty the same diameter, as you drive along the two heavy spots on the two front tires will sometimes line up in a way to accentuate the shaking and sometimes line up to cancel the shaking.

 

I'd just take it somewhere else and have them balace the tire again..

 

sorry, server was slow so I might of posted 3 x but it should of let me in the time frame

 

wheel bearing? its expensive.

which tires did you hit the curb with each time?

 

Have them use the road force bal i use discount all the time there great.