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Originally Posted by gold85mr2
well they are stock rims and are not staggered. but i had them balanced yesterday and they charged me to do all four tires and then decided to show me i had a chunck missing out of one and wanted to sell me a new tire for 70 bux on top of the balancing which i told them i didnt have. they complained about putting the messed up tire back on so i said put my spare on then. they then put the spare on then when i got the bill they charged me an additional $8.50 to mount my spare. when i said that was bs they said well we didnt charge the full amount which was 15 bux. this is why i try to do everything myself because most shoops are out to stick it to you but unfortunately i dont have a tire balancer. any way i drove to work this morning on my spare which was mounted on rear driver and since i was running late i drove much faster than i should have and i didnt feel any shaking anymore unless i was doing 85 and pressing the brakes. i dont know if the spare had anything to do with it or not. this afternoon i bought a used tire for 20 bux and the guy told me that since it was going on the rear that it didnt need to be balanced. is that true? i got a good deal on the tire so i didnt want to bother him. if it needs balancing i will take it somewhere else. i havent driven it yet since i put the new tire on so i dont know if i should have it balanced or not what does everyone think?
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No, that's not true. You always have to have tires balanced when you put them on a wheel.
Just so you know, the shop did not screw you. They were perfectly within their rights to charge you what they did. The damaged tire is probably the cause of your vibration.