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Tyre balancing

  • 08-08-2010 12:03am
    #1
    vector
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭


    sorry folks, I don't know much about my car apart from how many cans of back to black it consumes in a month!

    I assume when you get a tyre put on at a tyre place they automatically balance the wheel too?

    I took my 00 fiesta (nothing to write home about but in good nick) into some fast fit sort of place on friday, because it was in the right place at the right time and never asked...

    and staying with balancing.... if you have alloys are they supposed to put the balancing waights in the INSIDE of the wheel as stickers rather than on the rim so as not to ruin the look of the alloys?


Comments

  • #2
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    They might need to put some on the inside and some on the outside as well.


  • #3
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Merch


    why?


  • #4
    Divorce Referendum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Divorce Referendum


    Merch wrote: »
    why?

    If there is heavy spots on both sides of the wheel it will be necessary.


  • #5
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    lsome of my cars are fussy on wheel balancing and only one place near me does it well

    togher tyres in castlebar

    ive had tyres on from three otherv places supposedly pros nearby and after 70 mhp you can feel a slight shudder

    toghers balance inside and out and say that even though its not "fashionable" it is correct to balance inertial forces

    you can feel the difference

    i collect cars and bikes new classic and vintage and i'm fussy as f%^&*^ about tracking and balancing


  • #6
    sundodger5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭sundodger5


    it may not be necessary to put weights on the outside, and with alloys sometimes it is not possible.
    however there are 2 types of balancing static and dynamic.
    with static you balance the wheels in one plane (weights in one place i.e just on the inside)
    with dynamic you balance in 2 planes. the balancing machine can be set to have both planes on the inside of the wheel (one close, or on, the inner lip. the other as close as possible to the outer lip. usually just inside the spoke of the wheel)
    this is why tigger has success in some places and not in others.
    it is a lot easier and faster to do dynamic that is why it is tried that way first a guy who knows what he is doing will try dynamic if a customer comes back when static has failed.


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