Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Anybody else have HELL getting wheels balanced every time they go for new tyres?

Is there something about modern cars with bigger wheels and tyres (or something about the quality of new tyres) that means they are impossible to balance up? Or are tyre places just not getting the machines calibrated nowadays? I never used to have this problem, but my last three cars (320d, Mondeo, Vectra) have suffered badly with this. Every time I get new tyres I seem to need three different garage's balancing machines and endless swapping wheels around the car until I get smooth motorway running. Does everyone else just drive around and not notice a vibrating wobbly steering wheel? If I've had this problem every set of tyres on my last three cars, how many other cars on the road must be running around out of balance?

Just got two new Goodyear Eagle NCT5's on the front of the Vectra SRI (215/50/17) and the garage has failed with two attempts to balance them up, I'm going to need to take it somewhere else.