I bought new MB wheels and Goodyear Eagle tires at Discount tire and a day after I bought them,I started getting a noise from all 4 wheels that sounds like a suspension noise, but I jacked it up and nothing is loose or rubbing. The wheels and tires are stock size. Any ideas before I take it back and have them tell me it's nothing that they did?

 

Need to give a better description of the noise. Clunk,thump,crack,squeak,etc.

 

Like a clunk, any bump will make it and it's rather loud.

 

What size wheels, and what size are they replacing?

 

Tires are 215/55R-16, wheels are 16X7

 

Okay... not what I was thinking. I thought if you had gone with 17's or 18's the noise could be attributed to the harsher ride. Not the case with those tires.

Have you had the lugs re-torqued since the install?

 

X 2, then if noise persists, I'd jack up each corner & spin each wheel. Try jacking up the suspension to be like on the road.

Careful where ya put the jack, tho..

 

X 3 on the re-torque, if you didn't go back for the "25 mile free re-torque" you risk having a wheel come off...that will do thousands of dollars in damage and you risk injury to yourself and others.

 

I've re torqued the wheels 4X and jack it up and checked everything out, everything looks ok, I'm back to suspecting the wheels for making the noise that sounds like old dried out balljoints/tie rod ends. I'm taking it to discount tire tomorrow and will et you know what they did or said.

 

I took it in to Discount tire and they rebalanced the wheels and installed the missing hub rings. No change in the noise. It must be a coincidence, and the noise must be from the suspension. I had earlier replaced the sway bar link with Moogs and that got rid of the little noise I previously had, but this is much more and sounds like an old car with bad ball joints. Any ideas? Car has 46k on it.