Warped wheels... wheel repair?

[Secret Chimp]

Two of my 15x7 steelies are warped - they have a slight wobble to them you can see if you spin the tire and look at the tread. I have them on the rear so they don't mess up my big expensive 11x3 drums, but the car starts shaking if I go over 70.

Is it worth taking the wheels to a wheel repair place? Would they be able to flatten them out for a reasonable price? I can't just pick up another set, nobody around here seems to have any Mopar wheels aside from 14 inch rallys or a random cop wheel set (which would look awful on my car)

 

[dryheat]

Make sure it's your rims and not your tires. I've had new tires that had a slight defect on the tread that made it "pulse" as it rotated.

A good tire shop will be able to perform a road force test on the tires.

Also ... I've never had any luck with a rim once it is bent.

 

[67 coronet]

you can jack up the car and put something close to the wheel(not tire)and spin it to see if there is any movement from side to side.most wobble happens in the tread of the tire,and not the wheel.

 

[Cranky]

Most if not all wheels will have some side to side and OD run out. There's a tolerance. Don't know what that is but I've never had a set of steel wheels that were better than .015 anywhere on them.

 

[KilroyAces]

I remember we were restoring an old 64 Chevy truck one time, and it had this God-Awful vibration on the front end. I could see the front wheel wobble whenever we had it up on the jack stands and spun it. Well, come to find out, we took the wheel off, checked the drum, and there was a small indentation pushing out the side of the brake drum, where the rim contacts the drum. Took the drum off, and there were old wheel-studs that someone hadn't completely ground down. We ground them down, tapped the brake drum back in, and never had anymore problems.

 

[Secret Chimp]

you can jack up the car and put something close to the wheel(not tire)and spin it to see if there is any movement from side to side.most wobble happens in the tread of the tire,and not the wheel.

There is definite wobble in the tread of the tire. Are you saying the tires themselves can be out of true side-to-side somehow and not the wheel? I thought tires only went egg-shaped if they had something wrong with them.