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My truck is going in to the mechanic tommorow at 3 for front end work. It needs an alignment and rotors. I'm having the wheels rebalanced as well.
 

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My truck is going in to the mechanic tommorow at 3 for front end work. It needs an alignment and rotors. I'm having the wheels rebalanced as well.
If your shop offers it, ask them to do Road Force Balancing. With road force balancing they do the high speed spin balancing but they also add the weight of the vehicle to the wheel and tire and that changes the way the tire acts. It acts more like it does when you drive down the road. I always have my tires road force balanced it makes a huge difference going down the road. I get no vibration in steering wheel at highway speeds. It is worth the extra cost to do it. You won't be sorry.
 

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Good advice with the road force balancing. Is there any chop or odd wear on the tires? Anything indicitive of bad balancing or alignment?

If you are constantly warping rotors I would look at the brake hoses. If one or both of the hoses are internally collapsed it will maintain fluid pressure on the caliper even if you aren’t pressing on the brakes. This causes premature wear of pads and rotors as well as warping rotors from constant heat.
 

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I had a similar issue in one of my other vehicles. Turns out that the alignment was bad on one front wheel and I have uneven tire wear. The tire would not standup on its own it was so bad. After I got that fixed the vibration went away.
 

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I had the same exact issue on my 2008 Expedition. Ford used the band type TPMS sensors on 08 models where the newer Fords use the valve stem type TPMS sensors.

The band had loosened on the rim and the TPMS sensor moved creating an imbalance. After two trips back to Goodyear to rebalance the tires, the last tech noticed that he couldn't get the wheel to balance at all even after adding multiple weights. He removed the tire and noticed the TPMS band was loose on the rim.

He installed a new band for the TPMS sensor and no problems since.
 
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I just had all my TPMS replaced and reset about a month ago I'd say. The problem existed prior to it and still.
 

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I purchased 20" rims from a 2012 F150. I had the TPMS sensors moved from the 17" rims to the 20" rims. I needed new TPMS bands but I was able to reuse the TPMS sensors.

One of the bands failed and it allowed the TPMS to spin around freely thus affecting the balance of the rim causing vibrations above 70MPH
 
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They are keeping it at the shop overnight. Ill update when it's done tommorow. I'm hoping it's as smooth as silk when I get behind the wheel. Driving the Super Duty in the mean time
 

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I had a similar problem on my 08 so I replaced the pads and rotors even though they only had about 5K on them. Then on a trip after several hard stops on a 55 MPH road with lots of red lights, my brakes felt like they were locking up so I pulled over to find smoke billowing out of my new brakes. Ended up being the bearings. They were shot. Had the bearings replaced and good as new. Just a thought to keep in mind if it turns out its not the brakes.
 
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