Techpally descry FAQs about balancing Car Tires
In our previous publication, we talked about car tire imbalance, and the need to drive your vehicle to a quality car repair shop to check your tires and ensure they’re in proper alignment.
Car tire imbalance can impact your wheel, driving and cause accident when care is not taken, chaktty said.
Today, we’ll be looking into some of the frequently asked questions about this subject. More like people also asked questions on search engines.
How often should tires be balanced?
Every time the garage or tire shop puts new tires on the rim, the wheel is balanced.
You yourself should have the wheels balanced regardless if You have lost a balancing weight on a wheel.
You feel the steering wheel wobble at certain speeds or a general unrest in the vehicle (ideally, you should also have the other chassis components checked to see whether they have already suffered damage)
It can also make sense to have the tires balanced when changing from summer to winter tires or vice versa, Techpally boss advised.
The reason: Tires that are particularly stressed (sporty driving style, frequent driving over curbs) are always moved a little bit on the rim – they slip, so to speak.
As a result, the position of the balancing weights is no longer correct and at a certain point the imbalance becomes too great.
That costs balancing tires in the workshop
The costs for just balancing the tires are normally between three and eight dollars per wheel – a set of four tires would therefore cost between 12 and 32 bucks.
For aluminum rims, some workshops charge a surcharge of around 10 to 15 dollars per set of tyres.
If the wheels are still mounted on the car and the workshop is supposed to do the screwing and unscrewing, it costs between 30 and almost 100 Dollars in total.
The price differences are here – as well as with the pure assembly- sometimes inexplicably large and with many workshops/tire dealers you can definitely negotiate the price.
Anyone who has bought new tires there or is a loyal customer certainly has good arguments on their side.
According to businesspally journal, It is best to first get an overview of the price structure (for example. here ) and sort out the overpriced ones.
Since new cars have to be equipped with a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), you should also make sure when balancing in the workshop that the fitters handle the TPMS sensors carefully if the tire is removed from the rim during balancing.
The sensors aren’t exactly cheap. Of course, this also applies to every tire assembly.
This is how tires are balanced
The large mass of tires is balanced with the help of a balancing machine, according to Tech pally.
The wheel – that is, the tire mounted on the rim – is also clamped on an axle and set in rapid rotation by the balancing machine after the tire dimensions have been recorded.
Sensors detect how large and where the imbalance in the tire is.
The balancing machine then shows the fitter exactly where to attach the balancing weights to compensate for the imbalance. The tire is then tested again with the newly installed weights.
Static or dynamic balancing?
When balancing tires, a distinction is made between static and dynamic balancing.
In both cases, weights are attached (adhesive or impact/clip weights) to compensate for the imbalance.
However, static balancing only takes into account where around the tire a weight is applied (much like locating the minute markers on a clock).
Dynamic balancing, on the other hand, also takes into account the position of the imbalance along the axis of rotation (is the imbalance more on the side of the tire that points towards the edge of the road or more towards the inside of the car).
Dynamic balancing, which is only possible from a certain tire width, prevents the wheel from wobbling.
