The small lumps of metal clipped or stuck to your wheel rim are not decoration and they are not optional. A tyre and wheel assembly is never perfectly even in mass, and at motorway speed a heavy point of even a few grams throws the wheel out enough to shake the whole car. Balancing measures where that heavy point is and how much it weighs, and weights go on the opposite side to cancel it.
What matters on a replacement is that the old weights come off. They were calculated for the old tyre, and leaving them on while adding new ones simply guarantees the reading is wrong. Steel wheels take clip-on weights at the rim edge, most alloys take adhesive weights on the inner barrel where they cannot be seen, and using the wrong type either marks the wheel or falls off. The balancer travels on the van, so all of this happens at the car before you drive away.
A split found while checking the car before a long drive is the good version of this problem. So the tyre comes to the car: correct size matched to the wheel, fitted and balanced where it stands in Oakleigh Park, pressures set for the load you are about to put in it. The Woodside Park phone and the Totteridge phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Totteridge, midday in Oakleigh Park, the same call either way.
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Whetstone drivers spend a lot of time on the A1000 and out towards the wider road network, which is exactly the sort of steady speed at which a balance problem announces itself through the steering wheel. Every tyre we fit is balanced at the car for that reason, and the old weights come off first rather than being left to confuse the reading.
They were balancing something that is no longer there. Any reading taken with them still fitted is meaningless, so they come off before the wheel goes on the balancer.
They mark the rim edge and often will not sit properly. Adhesive weights on the inner barrel are the right answer for most alloys and are invisible from outside.
Almost always a balancing issue rather than a faulty tyre. It shows up at a particular speed and disappears above and below it.
Every one, on the van, before you drive off. An unbalanced wheel makes itself known within a mile or two at speed.
Because no tyre and wheel assembly is perfectly even. The weights cancel the heavy point so the assembly spins true.
Adhesive weights can if the rim was not cleaned first, which is why the surface gets prepared. If a car develops a shake out of nowhere, a lost weight is worth checking.
Common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes travel with us. Read us the sidewall code when you ring and we will confirm before setting off.
Usually 30 to 60 minutes. The distance through N20 is short and the High Road traffic is the main variable.
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