So I have an engine mount on the way from luke Jenkins which was purchased to solve the massive gear stick, dash shaking and vibration. Ive checked the mount and it looks white worn so I always was sure that was the problem. Anyways ages ago I asked about balancing cyclones in Cwmbran and welshpug mentioned malvern tyres, which I admit I had no idea where it was even though Cwmbran is tiny and I've lives there all my life, ( turns out it was less than a mile from my door )
Right anyway since having the six, which has always had this issue, I've had 6 tyres fitted in total, once I had 4 pe2s all-round , then I had the backs on the front and balanced and then the fronts fitted with falkens and put on the rear.
The problem was still there after work today I was like " I'm going to make 100 % sure they are balanced now. Thought I would get it done where welshpug said and went all out hunting down malvern tyres.
Anyway long story short is my cyclone had been balanced a few times completely wrong and the markers were in most vases 180 degrees off where they should be.
The guy explained that if they were 15g out I would feel it,
The front was out 140 on one and 85 on another, so I asked them to do the rears, which were out 75 and 115 .
Basically 400g of wheel weights were on my car that didst need to be and now the vibration is pretty much gone
Top guys they are there , even showed me everything the machine was coming up with

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Ex- Phase 3 China GTi-6 T-Reg

Pretty much gone??? Take it f*cking back!

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Previous china gti6 and Rallye owner.

Now a proud Astor Gti 6 owner.

Missing he BMW already...

hey there, ur vibration ur talking about was it around the 60mph+ mark and got to the point of shaking the whole dash and car to bits as you pass 70? as iv just had a vibration exactly like that today, started off not to bad just annoying, got the wheels balanced to see if it had lost a weight or something, then drove for a while longer and it got so bad that i called it quites and got the car recovered by the AA, thought it was going to sake the car apart! was worried it could be a drive shaft or summit on the way out. just wondering how bad urs was as if its just my wheels being balanced wrong it may save be a few £s, and is badly ballanced wheels common with cyclones?

right well thats a good place to start looking at mine then, would be nice if its something simple like that, il take it to the local pug garage then and get them to sort the wheels, should know for defo then.

thanks chap

I completely agree with you darkgti6!

My experience with wheel balancing has taught me to steer well clear of any places like QuikFit. They do a terrible job and they aren't even that quick! Some places will say they can balance cyclones when they actually don't have the spigot adaptor.

Even if they do have the adaptor you will still come across problems such as monkeys torquing up wheel bolts with air guns and scratches on your alloys that weren't there when you took the wheels down.

If you are in the Birmingham area I wold strongly recommend Bannings near Star City.

I had the same problem , had in back 3 times to ats, in the end i went in to the workshop and watched them balance them. They tried to centralise the wheels with the studs, i suggested the centralise them from the wheel centre and just use the studs to hold them to the machine- hey presto

so yep, it was the wheel balance it seems, finaly got it sorted today and all seems to be well, have yet to take it up to so high end speeds but its a million times better.

still cant get over how many places cocked it up tho!

Yeah but our point is we have been told that they can do them and it turns out shit. In my case this happened twice, you are lucky

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Ex- Phase 3 China GTi-6 T-Reg