if there was a boken belt you would feel it no matter which way the tire was turning, what exactly did you do .. dismount the tire and reverse it?

i have never seen i broken belt from the mounting dismounting prosses but i guess its possible.

also
please take no offence to this as it has happened before
are the lugnuts torqued correctly?

Kyle

No shimmy when I picked up the car. I drove the car for a couple of days before I noticed that the rotation arrow on the front tires were pointing the wrong direction.

I removed them myself and switched sides they were mounted to. This is when the shimmy started.

I then had the wheels/tires balanced and the shimmy remains.

James

Oh and this whole thing is about to be moot. These are 15 inch cookie cutters and I'm moving to 16 inch fuchs.

James

OK,

So I cant let this thing go cause it's gnawing at me and I'm thinking that I might have wasted a whole lot of money and took some bad advice on my last car.

Try and try and try to find proof of what I was told earlier about tires, and end up proving myself wrong. At least the next owner had a cherrey suspension. Learning experience.

My deepest and humblest apologies to all, I was wrong.

I'll let you know tomorrow morning if the car shimmies with the new wheels and tires. I won't let myself drive the car with the present "2 spoke" steering wheel.

New arrived today. I'll try to install tomorrow morning.

James

I've been running one (front) Bridestone in the wrong direction for a couple of months now. Noticed it too late, just left it like that. My little experiment. I run the car fast on rough roads, frequently. Even particiated in a time trial. No problems. In fact, if I brake hard (on a dry road), it seems to hold on a moment longer han the "correct" tyre. It doesn't seem to wear any faster or slower that the left tyre. Won't run it in the wet, though. As far as I know, the only problem lies with water dispersement and aquaplaning.
By the time our wet season starts, I'll need new tyres anyhow.

did anyone see see the article in grassroot`s motorsports a few months ago they ran the tires the wrong way on a dry tack and again on a wet track.

it was interesting they actually performed better running backwards on a wet track.

it was a good article

late
K

Update:

The wheels installed on the car were H offset not J. I was getting a rub on some turns, not sure if this had any effect on the situation.

With the 16 in Fuchs (J Offset) installed with 205 55 16's (Perelli P6000 Z Rated), it runs and tracks wonderfully, and no shimmy.

See new thread on the steering wheel update....

James