Coupe and Steering Wheel Vibration

[wogg]

My coupe now has around 9300 miles on it. I was perfectly happy with the ride quality of the car up until around 6000 miles when I rotated the wheels - front to back, back to front. Ever since that day, I've been experiencing a slight vibration in the steering wheel that can go between mostly unnoticable to watching my hand shaking when lightly grabbing the wheel.

I've had it spin balanced at a dealer, and that made it worse. I took it to another dealer that had a road-force balancing machine. They've done it three times now on that machine, and it hasn't gotten any better. Every time they say it drives great. All wheels within 8-12 lbs.

Today I took it out with one of their techs. He noticed it, and rotated my tires back to their original positions. I've been driving it and it feels like it's brand new again.

Now, eventually I will have to rotate them again and will see the same problem. But because the road-force results are all within their specs, they will not do anything more for me. They definitely won't give me a couple of new tires.

What should I do next? Call Nissan? Unfortunately at this point its just my word versus the dealer's word, so I don't know if I have anything concrete to stand on in battling Nissan's customer service. Is there some other more sensitive procedure a shop could do to diagnose vibration issues?

Any advise would be appreciated.

[mcheddadi]

new tires?

[wogg]

The point is I'm under warranty and they won't give me new tires! How can I convince them to replace the offending tires.

[cuzzbubba420]

Probably have to beat it out of them, the stealerships are sooooooooooooooooooooooo greedy. They will try to wiggle out of anything and everything.

[leifab]

Might be kindof a long shot, but also make sure your wheel bearing in your hub is in correctly....they don't have to disassemble the hub at all to rotate the tires...but you never know.

[Scott21384]

I had similar problems when i rotated my tires. I too have about similar milage. I got a nail in my tire and had to replace it, i was pissed. after that it drove horrible I brought it to two different Discount Tires, the second place rebalanced them and now it drives like new again, and i have 20;s by the way

[altimacoupelvr]

i had mine rotated at about 7200 miles and ive notice the same thing happening when i'm driving. only when going about 40 and above do i notice it though.