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Lift up each tire. Place an upside down 5 gallon bucket or something similar so the top (bottom) of the bucket is about halfway up the tire. Using a screwdriver place it so it just touches the tire and give the tire a spin. If it touches then pulls away something is out of round. It might balance fine on a machine but has to be perfectly round.

 

Any bubbles on the tire? On the sidewalls? Could have a tire out of round.

 

Do this on sidewall?

 

I had to get a set rebalanced 3 times when I upgraded wheels/tires on my last truck, take them back.

 

I had this happen with my 2008 PreRunner when I mounted new Goodyear Wranglers. I took it to Toyota to have the rear leafs replaced under recall, and while they were under there they told me I qualified for a U-Joint Enhancement Warranty. Meaning they will replace all of my U-joints on the rear end for free. My symptoms were vibration from 1-30mph then it would smooth out. The U-joints turned out to be the culprit.

Another thing is once you get finished with a drive do a walk around your truck and touch your palm to the hub of each wheel. If one is hotter then the rest you may have a stuck piston in your calipers causing drag.

Other things that are possible are wheel bearings, and out of round tires, or wheels. If you have a good butt you could also drive on a smooth surface at about 5-10mph and you could tell if one of the tires have a bulge or bubble, but I like the previously mentioned method of using a stiff object with the corner jacked up to mark the distance from the hub center to the outer edge of the tire. Free spinning the wheel with an object near the outer surface would truly tell all.

 

Could be one of your wheels is factory off balance that being missed from quality control.. i'm no expert but its a possibility also that wheels are so in demand..

 

I had problem with my 98 taco
Always had a slight shake at around 55mph
Learned to live with it
Rebalanced 2-3 times
Once when having a plug put in the tech worked on it for a while said wheel needed a ton of balancing
He was the only one who put time in and fixed it

 

I hear ya. I'd hate for it to be the new wheels, and it's not likely that the u-joints are bad with that low mileage. Sometimes when you freshen up the wheels/tires underlying problems you couldn't notice before are brought into view. Other times the parts you changed or added are the culprit.

I'd like to be more help, but I'm just going off of personal experience. I had purchased a set of new wheels once, and had a tire shop put new tires on them. They installed 3 wheels/tires with no problems, then on the fourth they started the lug with an impact, the wheel didn't seat so they beat it on with a hammer till it seated......... They didn't get to the rest of the lugs because I came running through the shop, screaming and cussing. They ruined a new wheel that day and replaced it. The only reason I told you this story is to let you know you aren't alone. Most of us have had an issue with brand new parts.


One last method is labor intensive, but it works only if you have a matching sparem. Use your spare (match the PSI to the rest of the wheels, it should be the exact same diameter. If it is a different size then this won't work) and mount it to one corner at a time to take test drives. This will isolate each corner, and if all of a sudden your ride is smooth you would know which corner is bad. Then it would come down to tire vs wheel, but you would know for certain which corner it was on.

I've heard of out of round wheels leaving the factory so it isn't impossible. I know for a fact tires are all different regardless of batch number within the same brand and style.


Good Luck

 

No problem before new wheels, truck has low miles, installed new wheels, and get vibrations. Im telling you man go get them rebalanced lol it was hard to believe for me too when it happened but they will throw weights sometimes. Its more likely your wheels are unbalanced than the rims themselves being a problem.

 

You can alway check the balance , it may not have been done right. How many weights are on them? One other thing... my son has custom modular wheels on his VW. The kind that have removable and replaceable bolt on barrels on them. Wheel Labs wheels I think they are. I'm not sure if your wheels are that way. He had bent barrel replaced about on the left front about two weeks ago. He came home on Thursday from work and said that wheel was "clicking". He found about ten bolts had worked loose. He tightened them all up and the problem went away. You may have a similar problem.