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dion90
10-09-2014, 05:34 PM
How important is wheel and tires balancing??

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hc1001
10-09-2014, 05:50 PM
Yes.

vibration from unbalanced wheels can cause things to wear prematurely as well as an uncomfortable ride.
pDubs
10-10-2014, 09:03 AM
+1 ^. Doesn't matter that the wheels and tires are both brand new. They aren't manufactured 100% perfect and still need to be balanced.
Jim@tirerack
10-11-2014, 11:19 AM
If you were to buy wheels and tires from us they do come mounted and balanced at no charge. If I can help let me know.
MarcoZandrini
10-12-2014, 08:55 PM
Actually., you should bed in the tires by driving about 50 miles before having balanced.
Jim@tirerack
10-13-2014, 07:58 AM
Nobody that I know of does that. I am not sure what you are bedding in. We ship a lot of wheels and tires and obviously don't do it. New cars don't do it with tires either.
pDubs
10-13-2014, 08:58 AM
Yeah I've never heard of that in my life.

So every time you get new tires for your car you bring it in to a tire shop to have the vehicle lifted and the wheels removed? Then they simply mount the tires and air them up and put them back on the car. Then they allow you to take the vehicle and drive around for the day to then come back and have to lift the vehicle again, remove the wheels, just to balance them? That sounds ridiculous and I can guarantee the weight those wheels take would have been the same amount in the same location if you just balanced them after mounting.

A lot of cars that I used to mount and balance new tires on came in 8,000 miles later to get their first balance/rotation and the weight is still spot on.