Ok so I’ve had my truck for 3 years and put on 50k miles, bought the truck used around 18k miles. I’ve always noticed a slight vibration starting around 65 up to about 85mph. I’ve had it in several times and they’ve rebalanced my wheels, looked for bends, I was at the point of having them pull the drive shaft. Well Black Friday had a special for refinished wheels from Detroit wheel and I decided to just replace my old wheels which had some recent curb rash from getting cut off in a traffic circle. The cosmetic damage to my black fx4 wheels just annoyed me every time I washed my car. Fast forward to this week, finally had a chance to take the new wheel and tire combo on a perfectly smooth new paved highway, where the vibration was immediately noticeable. Now, no more vibration and what confirmed it even more. The Detroit tire rep sent me an email saying that I was not getting my full core charge back for wheels because all 4 rims where out of round. Im going to call them tomorrow to get the spec on how out of round each one is, after speaking with my father who retired from ford as an engineer, asked him how common having all 4 out of round would be and he said very uncommon unless there was a manufacturing defect.

any ways was curious if others have had an unexplained vibration and they’ve tried everything to fix it, try new wheels. Mine were black fx4 wheels, 20” off a 2014.

I wanna see pics of the Detroit wheels. I’m assuming they’re the steelies that are pretty popular? I’ve thought about getting a set with some offset. I don’t vibrate tho.

Its possible but the truck didn’t appear to be abused it was the cleanest, well kept 14 I could find. The rims and tires were actually installed by the dealer the truck was originally purchased from and the dealer that has maintained all three f150’s I’ve had. When I purchased the truck the wheels had 8k miles on them. I believe the truck originally came with the grey fx4 wheels but the previous owner had them put the appearance package black wheels on at 10k miles with Michelin ms2 tires. The new wheels from Detroit wheel and tire are the exact same OEM wheel. They take oem wheels and refinish them, repair, etc then resell. So if you want all black raptor wheels, they have them. Or all chrome, black chrome. I just did an exchange since I wanted to rule out any possible wheel or tire issues before I went to dynamic balance route or new drive shaft.

they are just oem wheels refinished, they are black powder coated. Look identical to the stock appearance package wheels.