Shrinky
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Location: Gloucestershire
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Update for you all. I got the wheels balanced and they were out. They had to add more than 80gms to one wheel which apparently is quite a lot.
The guy did point out though that the grabbers are a budget tyre and probably the cheapest you can buy (In that size) and this type of thing with budget tyres is not uncommon. (don't know if that's true or not)
Anyway driven a few more miles with them balanced and it is perfect. No wobble or anything. I'm really pleased as I was worried I might have had to take them off. Global Warming.... I'm luvvin it. 
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al cope
Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
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nice one Shrinky
Grabbers arent the cheapest (I know of some Marshalls in this spec at £75 per tyre), but they are in the budget bracket, along with the Nexen's I tried previously, and I put my nervous ride down to them. Problem is, do you want to spend big bucks for you to still find out its not the tyres. The other issue is that the premium brands in this size are only weight rated at 110, whereas the cheaper ones go up to 114.
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| Tue May 27 2008 2:35pm |
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ronp
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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Shrinky wrote:
The guy did point out though that the grabbers are a budget tyre and probably the cheapest you can buy (In that size) and this type of thing with budget tyres is not uncommon. (don't know if that's true or not)
That's absolute ballcocks!!!!
Grabbers are General Tyres same company as Continental!!!
Why do garage monkeys spew out so much garbage???
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| Tue May 27 2008 7:33pm |
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Shrinky
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Location: Gloucestershire
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He was obviously not brain of the year as he also said that they were RRS wheels and were too big for my car  Global Warming.... I'm luvvin it.
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| Tue May 27 2008 7:47pm |
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Googsy
Joined: 06 Aug 2007
Location: Celbridge, Co Kildare.
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Got car back from dealers
They fixed the following
2 x balljoints
trackrod ends
and a few other bushes - steering knock gone result finally 
What confuses me is they told me the last two times it was in with them they had replaced these parts. I had to sign a form for them to say work was carried out under warranty never had to do that previously It did however list a number of parts that had been replaced. . Is this a new thing or did they not bother fixing my car previously and just decided on a few adjustments here and there? Googsy
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| Fri May 30 2008 6:01pm |
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anoble
Joined: 09 Aug 2007
Location: Ballina, Co Tipperary
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after getting my wheel balance checked again, they found the balance to be out a lot.....basically when the wheels were balanced originally they only used 1 strip of lead...After they were balanced correctly I do not get any wobble anymore - glad it was not the steering rack 
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