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Help: "Wheel-Jail"

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#1 ·
I think I am stuck in 'wheel-jail'

I have a set of BFG Rival S 315/30/18 mounted on Forgeline RB3C 18x11. Took the car for her inaugural drive and here's where it gets weird....

Driving the car feels smooth, I do not feel an abnormality. My buddy was following me and noticed a pretty severe wobble on passenger rear wheel. I had him drive the car and also noticed a wobble and low speeds <10MPH and more severe at freeway speeds. Any idea why tire would wobble and I wouldn't feel it?

Tires were mounted and balanced by Forgeline. Thank you!
 
#4 ·
I had a friend and his son riding with me and his son was in the back seat. His son happened to look out the side window as we were driving slow in a subdivision and ask why my rear wheel was moving in and out as to wobble. Took it home and raised the rear thinking the rim was bent so I swapped for another rim and got the same wobble.
 
#16 ·
A couple thing to note here, it could just be the pattern in the tread off creating an illusion of a wobble and the right read seems to mask a wheel wobble the most. When I was a mechanic, we often put the bent/damaged wheel there for a customer who didn't want to replace a wheel for this very reason.

I would either put the car on stands and let it idle to see if it is actually out, or take it to a garage and have them spin it by hand on their balancer with the gauge near the tire, then rim to see what, if anything is out.
 
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