Tires not balancing well--beads the fix?

**Imped** · 04-13-2009, 02:20 PM

Hey guys, I just got some 35x12.50x15 KM2s mounted on Cragar soft 8s, all brand new. I'll start at the beginning. I had them balanced at Discount Tire--weights only on the inside lip....that resulted in a steering wheel wobble at 45+ mph, so I went through and checked out everything to eliminate culprits. The tires....so I went back and had the road force balanced. The tires had a strip of weights added to the back of the wheel and the small tire weights remained on the inside lip. The wobble was better but it persisted at the same speed....so I proceeded to try to criss cross the tires from front to back and side to side (front driver went to rear passenger, etc.). This totally fixed the steering wobble but now the "problem" tire/s were in the rear and I could feel them back there. I went back today and explained. They stripped down the tires and started from scratch and re-balanced the tires with standard weights on the outside and inside lips, nothing on the wheel. The problem is the same and I have a slight wobble in the steering again, so obviously this time they didn't 'fix' anything.

SO, I'm thinking about running 8-10oz of beads in each tire now. It just doesn't seem the traditional method of weight-balancing is cutting it. Does this seem rational? Has anyone else had balancing issues that were fixed by beads? I'm assuming that the wheels and tires are ok and not off-center since they are indeed being balanced to "0" on the balancing machines. Any help or input is appreciated.

gribbles · 04-13-2009, 02:45 PM

I really think you just have a bum rim

**Imped** · 04-13-2009, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by gribbles

I really think you just have a bum rim

Come on man, don't break my spirits.

AustinTexasXJ · 04-13-2009, 02:54 PM

I had the same problem with 31" tires. what it is is Discount tire company its a dumb POS company that doesnt properly know how to balance tires.

you cant balance tires of the center hole, you need to balance it off the lugs which DCT doesnt do.

question there techniques on how they do it, and then tell them to do it right.
also you can request some kind of roller that roll presses the tire some how.

but this is all what the guy from summit told me and now my tires are shake free!

**Imped** · 04-13-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BMWalive

I had the same problem with 31" tires. what it is is Discount tire company its a dumb POS company that doesnt properly know how to balance tires.

you cant balance tires of the center hole, you need to balance it off the lugs which DCT doesnt do.

question there techniques on how they do it, and then tell them to do it right.
also you can request some kind of roller that roll presses the tire some how.

but this is all what the guy from summit told me and now my tires are shake free!

Cool man, thanks. I'm just going to make them help me with dropping some beads in.

gribbles · 04-13-2009, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by imped4now

Come on man, don't break my spirits.

I know, but I am dead serious, I have heard a ton of situations where these things wont balance properly, just because the tards at discount say its balanced doesnt mean poop

**Imped** · 04-14-2009, 08:02 PM

Well, two of the cragars (brand new) were bent. There's the problem.