Hello all,
I took my 96 4runner to pep boys (okay, flame away, I was in a hurry) to have the tires balanced / rotated a few weeks ago, when I got back, the truck shook worse than when it got there. Unfortunately this was right before I was moving out of state, so I never took the truck back to have them repair it. Now, today I took the truck into a local pepboys and they balanced the tires under their lifetime balancing warranty. However, they also pointed at some movement in the left front tire and said that the inner tie rod was likely gone. He proceeded to say that I had obviously been rotating the tires as the wear from this was even on all 4 wheels. here's the thing, the tires have 30,000 + on them and were rotated for the first time when they were balanced before I left on the move. ( I know, shame on me) so, I'm thinking that this guy is full of it, however, he also said that his shop could not replace the part, so its not like he was looking to drum up business. Aside from taking the truck into a decent alignment / front end shop - which I will do - what do you guys think? The truck never really shook before taking it in to rotate the tires.
Dave