Wheel bearings shot or wheel balancing or just noisy tires?

rigasr · May 18, 2011

I have this wheel vibration when driving (primarily noticing it from the front) which is new to me. You can feel it when driving really slowly almost as if it is occuring by every revolution of the wheel and goes faster as I speed up.
It's not severe but annoying to a point where I want something done.
I did install Pirelli Scorpion Zeros all-season about 6 months ago, I dont recall having this issue when they were installed but not 100% sure.

Not sure where I should start looking:
1. Are these tires notorious to be noisy and rough on the road?
2. Is it possibly bad wheel balancing which has gradualy gone worse?
3. Could it be the wheeel bearings? I have 82K miles on my 05 V8
4. Or maybe wheel alignment?

Thanks

Yeti · May 18, 2011

You could have lost a wheel weight too. I would take them in for a rebalance and go from there to try to narrow it down.

nltomba · May 18, 2011

Tighten your lug nuts

rigasr · May 18, 2011

I'll have them rebalanced to start, I guess this is the cheapest route to start with.

The lug nuts are tight.

Wallman · Feb 17, 2021

Yours has nutz? My 2004 V6 has boltz.

V10 · May 19, 2011

I would start with both balance and rotation. IF you can locate a shop with a Hunter road force balancer then you'd pay a bit more for the balance but it would show a bad tire or rim and perhaps even compensate for such...call around and ask if they have a Hunter road force balancer...

http://www.hunter.com/balancer/roadforce/

gotboost · May 19, 2011

If it's a sub 20mph vibe you could have a separated tire or a very badly worn one. If it's a high speed vibe then it's more than likely a balance issue.

VARAGR · May 19, 2011

check also this:

http://www.clubtouareg.com/forums/f62/steering-wheel-vibration-56161.html

Also if you search here about wheel vibration you will find a lot of things.

The first thing is the Hunter Balancing and then you are going for the others.

Wheel bearings shot or wheel balancing or just noisy tires?

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