I took the xa to get the wheels balenced because it seemed that it need it. Driving into d.c. everyday is like dodging land mines. So i go in and they balence all 4, but the passenger side has more weights on it than the driver, and i have vibration at 65, well about 70 now. I did not have vibration before i went in. I am on 5zigen fnor1c's and wonder if the lightweight wheels are prone to comming out of balence more than heavier ones, and why am i vibrating now.(i do have hubcentric rings, alignment is well) any idea's, am i supposed to have equal weight on each wheel?

 

The amount of balance weights on each wheel will be different. They balance the tire and wheel so that each one is in balance (or they are supposed to). Most of the balance weights are to compensate for the tires not being of an even weight all the way around, very little imbalance is normally due to the wheel (unless it is bent, a good wheel balance guy will check for bent or out of round wheels before he actually balances it). Sounds to me like you got a crappy wheel balance. I would take it back and tell them it shakes like heck at 65...it didnt do that before I had you guys balance...do it again. If it ends up the same go somewhere else and have it done again (find a good tire shop). Another thing that can help sometimes is on the car wheel balancing...it spins and balances the wheel on the car spinning the brake rotor/drum, axle etc. then weights are added (to the wheel) to balance the assembly. This works very well because it can balance imbalance in the car itself as well as the wheel (beware, if you have this done you must put the wheel back on if you take it off exactly the way it was (same lug holes on the same studs) in order for the balance to remain correct (this is not an issue if the wheel is balanced off the car).

 

great help and i will have it rebalenced tuesday, also was not keen on hearing the tourqe wrench on my lugs. Why is impacting lugs bad, i never understood that? Thank you for your help

 

Impacting is generally bad because lugs are generally over tightened with this tool. Most impact wrenches do not have close enough adjustment tolerances to get accurate torque settings from them (there are exceptions but even these generally aren't calibrated often enough and the way impact wreches are tossed around in the shop are likely to be out of calibration...no one throws around a $100-300 torque wrench tho). The torque wrench is very accurate and gets the set torque on a lug every time.

 

I bought my "click" torque wrench mostly for the Scion. Now I use it on every vehicle. Love having it now so much more than the pointer type.

 

Click type torque wrenches arew generally much more accurate than beam type as well. So much easier to use to. You don't have to worry about odd angles where you can not directly see where the beam is pointing

 

Not to mention the shaky needle syndrome when trying to achieve high torques.
My main problem is remembering to set back to zero after using.