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Old 04-15-12, 07:36 PM
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Old 04-15-12, 08:16 PM
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Nice, looks like its time to eliminate some of that wheel gap.
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Old 04-15-12, 08:24 PM
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nice! what size? and i agree time to lower it
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Those look like stock 2001-05 GS 16s. What size did you get? Lotta meat on those tires.
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Old 04-15-12, 10:35 PM
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nice. my homie has a set of 19s for his 1st gen IS300.
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17" But I have problems guys...I took it on the highway and around 70-80 its shacking like a **************.

I went back to sears and had them re-balance the tires and its still shacking like crazy. I bought Eagle Gt tires

Do you think these could be bent??
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Old 04-16-12, 08:46 AM
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Hopefully they used the correct Lugnuts and do you know if the wheels are hub centric or need hub rings?
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I bought the special lug nuts and the correct rings to leave no room for error....They are swapping tires now...fingers crossed
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You probably need a road force balance. I just had Pepboys put on oem 5 spoke 17s for my GS400 and they Vibrate at 65-75, they could only do a standard balance. I am going to Firestone to have them rebalanced.

go to http://www.gsp9700.com/ to find the closes shop that does it.
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here's the deal. Sears, great place. We balanced them again and even put a different set of tires on. Pilot sports actually.

Took it back out same crazy shake. Then we took all of the tires off and then we put each of the wheels on the balance machine and guess wat one was off by a lot and one was minimal bent.

Check out how bad the rim was

http://imgur.com/nX9Gu
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hubcentric rings.. you need em
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hubcentric rings.. you need em
Already had them on there to the exact specs.

The wheel is bent, check out the pic on my previous post to see how bad it is ...Sending them back
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Damn that sucks! Why send them back OP? Can they not be repaired??
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Originally Posted by JLAWS
Those look like stock 2001-05 GS 16s. What size did you get? Lotta meat on those tires.
Actually, they look like the platinum edition wheels:

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Wheels look good. Sorry to hear about the shaking issues
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