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Randomly went off-roading with one of my Uber passengers on their property after dropping them off. Followed them in their excavator through the woods on what he called a "trail" lol. Nope, we were making the trail.
As soon as I got back to the road to head home my steering wheel started shaking violently left to right about an inch once I went over about 25 mph along with a clunking sound that increased and decreased with speed. The next day I checked the driver side front corner which is where it sounded like the clunking was coming from and everything looked hunky dory, nothing loose, bent or broken.

I was about to put the wheel back on and noticed that the wheel weights were missing. I'm guessing a rock got caught in there and knocked them off. After having the wheel rebalanced it was definitely an improvement but it was still shaking quite a bit.
I took the car down the road to one of the do-it-yourself car washes and noticed that there was a ton of mud caked inside the front passenger side wheel. When I started pressure washing the inside of the wheel a rock about 2 inches in diameter fell out from being lodged in there somehow.
Well it turns out that the weight of a rock stuck in your wheel screws up the balance. Drove perfect after that 👍👍.
 

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Did you paint the wheels? If you did, how did you do it?
I would like to know the answer to this as well! Been thinking about trying plasti-dip on my factory sport wheels, but wanted to find someone who has done it to see how they look. Im guessing thats what hunter1650 did, but would like to know for sure! And would like to know how they are holding up!
 
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