Wheels and tires must be properly balanced in order to maintain handling of your vehicle. When they are aligned and in balance your car will stay on the road, and your tires will show the signs of wear and tear at a slower rate. In order to achieve dynamic balance of your tires, spin balancing is often the technique that is used by mechanics. This is convenient as it can be done with your tires and wheels, cheap rims and all, still mounted on your vehicle.
This is how most tires are balanced, using these spin machines that are now computerized. Once the wheel is affixed to the machine, the machine speeds up and the computer calculates where the tire is in need of weights to be placed. Many different options for the kinds of weights to be used are available, some are clipped to the edge of the rim, on the inside as the ones placed on the outside wall of the tire can be either easily damaged, or tend to fall off while the car is in motion. Certain wheels made of alloy, such as custom truck wheels, must have the weights attached to the rim’s lip. Other weights used for balancing tires, have an adhesive that sticks to the center of the vehicle’s wheel.
These are convenient to install but again, they are likely to get scraped away by snow, mud and sand. Another way to dynamically balance the tires is by shaving off some of the rubber. But this may remove too much tread in the end, and is much more costly than applying the weights to the rims. Shaving the tires is usually only effective on larger vehicles such as trucks and tractors, vehicles with tires so large they have that rubber to spare. Whichever way you choose to balance your tires, either by the addition of weight, or the shaving off of the rubber, having a vehicle with properly balanced tires will ensure that you have a smoother and a safer ride.
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