My 1985 500sel has branned new tires and are blanced and the alignent is perfect its starts around sixtyit is not that bad the steering wheel vibrates and at 65 the dash shakes but after 75 it runs smooth any reasons

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1985 500sel 220k
1981 300sd 278k sold
1989 chrysler
leabaron 130k
1990 380sl (hopefully)

Did it do this immediately after the new tires and wheel balance? If it ran up to speed once okay, and then later started giving problems, I would expect you lost a wheel weight. Many of the tire stores don't have weights that will stay on the outside edge of your alloy wheels.

Another possibility is that they did not put weights on the outside of the wheels. I've had many problems over the years trying to convince a $5 an hour tire changer that I want the weights put on both inside and outside. Most of their customers don't want the weights on the outside because they look bad. One alternative is a shop that will use tape weights on the inside diameter of the rim as far toward the outside of the wheel as possible.

I would put my money on wheel balance being your problem.

Good luck,

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Larry Bible
'84 Euro 240D, 523K miles
'88 300E 5 Speed
'81 300D Daughter's Car
Over 800,000 miles in
Mercedes automobiles

you mean those little black peaces i don't have any i just got new rims and will that make such a diffrence

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1985 euro 500sel 220k
1981 300sd 278k sold
1989 chrysler
leabaron 130k
1990 320sl (hopefully)

Jeez if you have no weights, stick-on or otherwise, anywhere on your rims then that is your problem.

where cna i ge3t some and how much


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1985 euro 500sel 220k
1981 300sd 278k sold
1989 chrysler
leabaron 130k
1990 320sl (hopefully)

You'll need to go back to the tire shop and have them re-balance your wheels. They need to be dynamically balanced, and I'd tell them to use the inside/stick-on weights. If your shop doesn't do computer balancing, I'd take your wheels to someone who has the correct balancing machine.

Brian

do you think tire kingdom will have them



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1985 euro 500sel 220k
1981 300sd 278k sold
1989 chrysler
leabaron 130k
1990 320sl (hopefully)