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I don't have their number handy. A few things to note about Speedline. They are great when it comes to sourcing for higher end tyres and sizes at a good price (compared to other shops I went to). However, they seemed to struggle with the mounting of my PS2's when I was watching and I was surprised at the amount of weights needed to balance the wheels compared to the outgoing pair of wheel weights I had with the Toyo T1R's. After that, at about 120-140km/h I got a slight vibration on the steering a symptom of bad balancing I thought.

 

Brought my car to Lim Tayar in TDDI and asked them to rebalance all 4 tyres (bought my previous E46 PS2's and Jazz PP2's from them and they did a good job), and when they put the wheel on the balancer, they noticed that the tyres were "jumping". The guys told me it wasn't a problem with the balancing but a problem with the mounting I had on 3 of the 4 tyres and they remounted the tyre on the wheel and showed me the difference and the "bounce" of the tyre on the balancer was gone after they re-did it. Also much less weights needed to balance the tyre. There are techniques to mount the tyre on the wheel and although it may appear balanced, if the tyre is "bouncing" on the balancer, you'll get vibrations. After paying them Rm75 for the detailed balancing job, the car is smooth and silky all the way to 150km/h as I tested today. I suspect that its the mounting machine used as well, cos it looked so much easier for the Lim Tayar guys mounting the tyres than the struggles I saw going on at Speedline. Also the wheel weights look so much prettier from Lim Tayar (much less needed as well) compared to the type Speedline used lol.


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