A wheel that is out of balance by a few grams does not feel like anything at twenty miles an hour and feels like a fault at seventy. The weight sits in one place on a circle turning about fifteen times a second, so it throws the wheel outwards on every revolution. You feel it as a shimmy through the steering, and the parts quietly absorbing it are the wheel bearings and the suspension bushes.
That is why the balancer travels in the van rather than living in a workshop. When a tyre is beyond saving and a replacement goes on beside the A501, the wheel is spun and weighted right there before it goes back on the car. It is not a step to be caught up with later at a garage, because the driving between now and later is exactly where the damage gets done. The nuts go back on to the manufacturer's torque figure with a wrench, and the pressures come off the plate in the door shut.
The other three tyres get checked on every emergency replacement, and it is not padding. The immediate job stays simple: correct size brought to the car in St Luke's, fitted and balanced where it stands, valve checked, pressures set. Pressures set before we leave City Road, and the same on Goswell Road. A the Bunhill Fields area driveway is our workshop, and so is a St Luke's kerb.
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There is no sensible way to nurse a ruined tyre through the Old Street roundabout, and no reason to try. The replacement comes to the car, goes onto the rim beside it, and is balanced and torqued before you move an inch. The old casing leaves in the van, so the only journey the damaged tyre makes is the one to the tip.
A tyre opened up along the shoulder on Goswell Road and there was nothing to discuss. Correct size out of the van, balanced on the spot, back on the car in a loading bay.
A hard mount onto a kerb near Great Eastern Street split the casing. The wheel itself got checked for buckling while it was off, because a bent rim ruins the new tyre as well as the old one.
A car in St Luke's needed a tyre before a long run north. It went on, was balanced properly, and did the motorway without a hum.
It is the same machine doing the same job. The wheel is spun, the imbalance is measured, weights go on the rim. Doing it at your kerb changes the postcode and nothing else.
Yes, while it is off. A buckled or kerb damaged rim will destroy a new tyre and leak air besides, so it is worth the ten seconds it takes to look.
Whatever the manufacturer specified for that car, set on a torque wrench. It is a number rather than a feel, and an air gun cannot produce it.
Yes, and it is often easier than the street. Give the level and the bay and the work happens around the car where it is.
Card or contactless on site once the wheel is torqued back down, with the price agreed before anything comes off.
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