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Hi Dave, jumped the gun and bought a used, 36k miles 2010 Lexus ES. Everything seems to work good except for a few problems:
– passenger seat shakes
– car feels “rough” past 70
– can feel vibration in the steering wheel at certain speeds.It seems to be worse in hot weather and less in cold weather. What should I do?
First thing to do is get all of the wheels dynamically balanced. That should solve all of your problems unless one or more of the tires is having structural problems like belt separation, or is out of round.
Hey Dave, So I took the car for a 1500 mile roadtrip(drove it home). The scenery was absolutely beautiful. I would do it again, but only in a good riding car! lol. The ride quality was terrible. I ended up taking the car to the Lexus dealership to get it checked out when I got home. Turns out, one of the tires had been sitting too long and had to be replaced. It turns out that some tires need more than just balancing. Hunter also has this machine called roadforce and thats what I did. The ride is much smoother now but I think thats as best as it can get with the current tires(which are pretty new and OEM)
But you are right Dave, on these older cars a lot of the rubber parts wear out and start to have a lot of vibration problems that are hard to pin point. Its just more of a headache.
My questions is this, what do you think about buying the cheapest tires possible? For example, on my SUV I had to replace the tires and I went with the cheapest ones I could find. They were made by a Chinese company(LingLong). I went with them for a few reasons:
-cheap
-tires need to be replaced every couple years anyways
-possibility of hitting nailsAre tire companies charging people way too much money if we take these other things into consideration?
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