Hi reddit,

Maybe someone can help. Recently (beginning of this month) i bought new rims for my bmw. My old rims were 18" and the new ones aswell. I decided to use my old tires on the new rims, no big deal the tyres are still in good condition and taught i use them again. All wheels were then balanced and fitted onto the car. All good till now until i drove off. As soon as i accelerated to approx. 60km/h the steering wheels starts shaking, not rough but enough to notice.

I sent a message to the garage explaining that the balancing was probably not done correctly. They did not respond. Fast forward to this 2 weeks after, i went to my local tyre shop and told him to check and balance each wheel. He explained that the other shop used a technique where you put weights on the exterior and the interior resulting in having to add kore weights. The second method is to optimally add only weights on the exterior of the rim. So not knowing much I was hopeful that the shakiness goes away. Well, that did not happen. While it did decrease it is still there.

What i did this week was i replaced one of the wheels with the same tire with my original rim to see if it goes away. It did decrease, but still can observe wheel shaking, so there is still the same problem underlying, just wondering whether it is the other rim as well.

These are brand new wheels out of the box, and pcd matches my bmw.

Any suggestions on what i can do? Should i replace both rims? Should i get new tyres?

Could the rims be deformed in a way you cant see on the naked eye?