Raph

Here's my story, chime in if you've had a similar experience, and if you can share some tips:

- Had the 8K maintenance, new oil, rotated tires
- After rotating the tires, the car shimmies over 115 KM/H
- Audi re-balanced the tires - car still shimmies
- Audi did road force balancing - car still shimmies, however the Hunter 9700 revealed that two tires had high radial force variation: 22lbs and 24lbs (something like that). The Audi standard is 14lbs.

The service manager said he'd call Pirelli and Audi to see what they can do. He thinks they'll pro-rate the cost of replacing the tires.

My position is that an unround tire/flat spot is a defect and that the problem was present from time of purchase (6 months ago). Only until the tires were rotated to the front did I feel the shimmy.

Has anyone had a similar experience, and what was the outcome?

Thanks

Gorobei

Not a solution, but have you tried rotating them back just to see what happens?

BluDemon

They are really noisy and just suck.

My all season rims with P-Zero M&S are nice and quiet with plenty of grip no vibrations etc.

joeymagl

There was a slight vibration at 120 KPH from the time of delivery. Dealer did road force balancing and it mimimized it to an extent that i can hardly feel it so i haven't bothered about it. In my case only happens at 120 kph. If you go faster it disappears - maybe that's the solution.

Raph

The tech recommended never rotating the tires. I wasn't sold on that idea.

BluDemon

that's what i'm thinking next time.......just let them wear in and stay put.

Raph

Re: won't that wear your tire too quickly?

BluDemon

i really don't think so.... but it's better than than noisy tires that drive me nuts