Why is wheel balancing important?
Many of us spend countless hours preparing and maintaining your cars, but how many take the 5 minutes it takes to balance the wheels? Unbalanced tires can affect vehicle handling, cause vibrations and cause wheel bearings to deteriorate more quickly. The wheel balancing process is quite simple and requires only a few tools.
The first thing you need to be able to balance the wheels is an efficient and suitable device. We offer wheel balancers specially designed for this purpose but you can also use one of your axles as a balancer.
How to balance your wheels?
- Remove the drive shaft so the axle can turn freely and gently spin the wheel .
- If it moves like a pendulum and then stabilizes, then the stabilizing point is an imbalance of weight on one side of the wheel, then add weight to the other side.
- You can use balancing paste , modeling clay or putty that you will stick to the inside of the rim, against the covered side of the wheel.
- Turn the wheel again, and add or remove weight as necessary.
- When you no longer find “heavy areas” this means that your wheel is balanced .
