When refitting my 5 spokes back last week, I refitted them tuther way around so I could get even wear across all 4 tyres (although to be honest the now rear tyres are close to the mark).

However, at about 80mph (private road;)) I get real bad steering wheel wobble. The octy 17s I had briefly had no such issues, regardless of speed. I'm wondering whether the wheels being on the back of my car has somehow unbalanced them, perhaps via uneven wear? I can't really see how and can only assume they were always not balanced right, and its now become really really obvious they're now the steering wheels. Below 70mph you would not know they were out.

Driving down the A38 to my current audit in Plymouth is not fun at all. :(

I would have thought sticking your wheels on the other way around would cause issues, do they not stick out a lot?

Enough of the banter, serious answer now. Yes ther eis a good chance your back wheels werent ballanced correctly anyhow but because they were on the back you didnt notice it, now they are on the front its a lot more obvious.

They might not have been balanced correctly in the first place, but being on the back you might not have noticed. And now I have just noticed that Lummox posted the same thing, Ill get my coat.....

The weights also come off quite easily. A pain but all to true. If your really not happy, there is a tyre place attached to the Vospers at Marsh Mills

Hmm, now you mention weights I remember when giving the wheels a damn good clean before going on that I spent some good time scraping off some glue residue on the insides of at least 2 of the 4 wheels. Wouldn't be surprised if they've all had weights come off now. We'll see.

Hmm, now you mention weights I remember when giving the wheels a damn good clean before going on that I spent some good time scraping off some glue residue on the insides of at least 2 of the 4 wheels. Wouldn't be surprised if they've all had weights come off now. We'll see.

Assumed they were just where mr tyre monkey had levered off my old weights and not bothered to clean off the gunk before attaching new weights somewhere else.

Assumed they were just where mr tyre monkey had levered off my old weights and not bothered to clean off the gunk before attaching new weights somewhere else.

It happens, I have lost all of mine but oddly the wheels are fine. They don't clean the wheel properly before adding new weights and they just fall back off.

When refitting my 5 spokes back last week, I refitted them tuther way around so I could get even wear across all 4 tyres (although to be honest the now rear tyres are close to the mark).

However, at about 80mph (private road;)) I get real bad steering wheel wobble. The octy 17s I had briefly had no such issues, regardless of speed. I'm wondering whether the wheels being on the back of my car has somehow unbalanced them, perhaps via uneven wear? I can't really see how and can only assume they were always not balanced right, and its now become really really obvious they're now the steering wheels. Below 70mph you would not know they were out.

Driving down the A38 to my current audit in Plymouth is not fun at all. :(

You do not have Directional tyres on do you?

Other than that then they need balanced again

Jimbo aka National

Had the same problem, transpired the ones that had been on the rear had gone out of shape. The ar was perfect all the time they were on the back. Try balancing first, it that fails then its new tyres Im afraid

tyres appear fine - I did take a look at them before fitting, and all pressures were correct and even.

weights dropping off appears the likeliest suspect right now.