u/fast_albin

This has been going on for a while, but I slowly just gave up trying to pinpoint what exactly it is and thinking about it is just driving me nuts again. My car currently has just under 39k miles. Back when it had about 7k miles I had gotten a set of Rays CE28 CRII black edition wheels (18” 9.5J +38 offset) paired with a set of Yokohama Advan Sport A/S+ tires (265/35). Ever since I got those installed I noticed a very faint vibration on my steering wheel. I’ve tried a few things including running hub centric rings (still on), alignment and road force balancing. None of these really helped the issue or found the cause after all this time. I would switch it out with my stock wheels with the original PS4Ss for summer and I never noticed this vibration. At first I thought it was the wheel or tire that was out of round. When I got the tires, I had it stacked on top of each other for a 2-3 months until the wheels came in, so it led me to think maybe the tire is just deformed because of how I stored it, but the road balance never found anything on the wheels or tires. The strange thing is that it’s not a consistent vibration. I’d say 90-95% of the time I notice nothing, but when I’m on certain stretches of the highway, it vibrates. Another thing I realized recently is that it feels almost as if the vibration shifts from the front passenger side to the driver side. When the steering is not vibrating, i see minor vibrations on the passenger front seat. However, when the seat stops vibrating, the steering starts to do so. Also for context I live in St. Louis, MO, so the roads aren’t the smoothest. Additionally, I have installed a H&R springs, PRL rear motor mount and switched to an ITS damper module. All three of these were installed after the wheels and the issue was present before that.

At this point I’m thinking it’s one of these things:

Change in offset going from +60 to +38

Deformed tires

Bad tie rods

Sorry for the long read, but I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this issue. I really wanna get this fixed. Worst case I may just sell my wheels and get a different set with an offset closer to +60.

So this girl and I went to middle school together, we weren’t super close friends or anything, but still we were still cool with each other. My dumb 13 year old self decided it was a great idea to ask her out to the school dance by leaving a note at her desk, she obviously said no. We still talked before we went our separate ways for high school. Neither of us really made an effort to keep in touch outside of following each other on ig and liking each others’ posts occasionally over the years. We’re both 26 now, I moved out of state about 2 years ago for my first full time job and she’s still back home. I never really thought about her all these years even while I was still back home. I’d say it’s a combination of me being occupied with other things and her just not being that active on social media for me to be up to date with her life. However, she’s been more active lately posting herself. She is a very good looking woman, she travels a lot and overall seems to be doing well. I’d say I’m doing pretty myself as well. I’ve never really focused on relationships up until now. I was busy trying to finish undergrad and grad school, getting a well paying job, etc. So most of my early 20s felt like a blur. Now, I’ve been thinking about relationships and she’s someone who I feel very much interested in. The problem is, I only go back home 2-3 times a year and that too for 2 weeks at a time. The only realistic way for me to communicate with her is through social media. How do I go about starting up communication with her again after all these years? If it’s even possible. I feel hesitant striking up a conversation out of the blue through DMs, and I absolutely don’t want to approach this only with the intention of scoring a date either. At the very least, I’m hoping to try and catch up with her, know what she’s been up to, so we’re at least close enough again, even if it doesn’t end up in a date/relationship right away. Is it something I can do online? Or are there any other ways I can approach this? I’d hate for history to repeat itself, where I didn’t give enough effort, just like I did back when I was 13…