Trouble balancing Granite Alloys & Yokohama tires

Anyone else have Granite Alloy wheels, or cheap aftermarkets in general, and has trouble getting them balanced? Specs are 18x9 Granite Alloy GA643 with 275/65R18 Yokohama iceGuard IG51V. My main concern is I got the cheapest wheel/tire package available, using Tire Rack's catalogue as a reference point.

I've been back to my shop 3 times trying to get these balanced using the traditional stick-on and hammer-on weights. Symptoms are this back and forth sensation while moving between 30 and 50mph. As in, the balance seems off from a front to back motion instead of side to side, so no steering wheel shake but you definitely feel it in the chassis.

Their next steps are to use something like DynaBeads, something similar to sand that will self-balance inside the bead of the tire. Looking around the internet, it looks like a common practice in commercial and RV use, but it seems kinda funny to have on a stock size wheel for a light duty truck.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

 

See if you can find a shop that does road force balancing. Very frustrating, especially since you purchased online and do not have an actual store to visit for potential return. A new tire or rim can be defective and not balance, it does happen. Try the road force balance, but honestly a stock size tire with that mild configuration should have no issue being balanced.

On your rims, are those hub centric rims? I seem to remember a post where someone installed non hub centric wheels on their Tundra and had balance and vibration issues.

One more thing I have noticed myself many times- sometimes new tires need a few hundred miles to "feel" right. I have experience new tires (different brands, types, vehicles) sometimes have vibration, or not handle as well, floaty, etc when I first had them installed. After a few hundred miles on the truck they started to perform as I would expect. It was almost like the tires needed to wear in a little on the actual vehicle.

Hope you get it sorted as having balance, handling or vibration with new wheels/tires can be maddening.

 

Thanks for the reply, I do not know about the hub centric piece. Since the shop handled all of the install, I'll make sure to follow up on that. I don't think they're using a road force balancer either, though it has been close to 2k miles so far, so I think it's safe to say it's not a wear-in issue.