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Originally Posted by JMAN718
Thanks guys for responses, the vibration, could it be wheel bearings or tie rods?
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I think a wheel bearing would have to be excessively worn to cause a bounce at higher speed. You'd most likely hear it grinding or squealing if it was that worn. The other possibility is that you broke a belt in the tire but normally that shows up with visual inspection of the tire. I'd still question the loss of a weight.
Easy way to check wheel bearings is jack the car up, grab the top and bottom of the tire and try to push the top in then pull the bottom out. It should stay firmly in place. I did have a tire wiggle once on my truck that ended up being ball joints. One other possibility could be a worn front shock but even badly worn shocks can be masked by by the front torsion bars on these cars as I understand it.
I'd take the car to a good tire store and have them balance the tire. If they balanced the tire on the inside of the rim rather than the clip on weights on the outside you could have lost a weight and not necessarily all of them but rather just one small weight. I have my wheels balanced with weights on the inside because I don't want my polishing job being scuffed by a weight. I can see how it would be very easy to lose one of the stick on weights.