Exige wheel balance

[Fokker]

Has anyone here had issues balancing wheels on a lotus or on an exige?
I’ve had mine force matched and balanced at imperial tyres in Swindon and there is still steering wheel shake at 80-90mph. They’ve done 4 track days so maybe they’ve had it but there is still plenty of tread.

I’m at the point where I’m just going to have to buy a new set of cup 2’s.

Any thoughts? Bell & Colvill tinder me today that it’s a known issue to balance a lotus well.

[BertBert]

From doing quite a lot of track work if the wheels are really hard to balance, first port of call is to check they are not out of true. Youd expect a wheel balancer to spot this, but they often don't seem to.

[Fokker]

Yes we road force matched them so we checked the wheels and the tyres. I’m sticking some new cup 2’s on tomorrow morning for the sake of £300 so I’ll see how they perform. Will report back.

Previously force matching has always sorted out any wheel wobble on my cars but not the exige. I think it’s so light at the front that it needs to be very precisely done, maybe even on the car.

[Fokker]

Update : replaced front tyres and all good now. Think they were just not round any more.