rock761
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 09-28-11 12:58 PM - Post#139747
Do you balance your tires every time you have them rotated?
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DrivinTooFast
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09-28-11 02:42 PM - Post#139759
In response to rock761
Well, I am not that much of a tire rotator but balancing them should be pretty strait forward given they were originally balanced. If nothing else it checks to make sure a weight has not fallen off.
I would not balance unless 50% of the treadlife is gone.
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richardb
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09-28-11 05:37 PM - Post#139770
In response to rock761
There are very legitimate points to balance or not to balance with tire rotations. I liken it to getting your oil changed and not changing the filter. The last time I bought tires for my truck they were $700. I'm going to do everything I can to get as much life out of them as possible. I usually get whichever 2 tires were on front balanced.
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Brewer
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09-29-11 07:55 AM - Post#139791
In response to richardb
I rotate my tires on my driveway so I don't balance them. If ride quality has not been affected then I say just swap them around and be done.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
-GEN George S. Patton
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Automobob
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10-06-11 09:13 AM - Post#140227
In response to rock761
Your vehicle will develop a wear pattern on its tires naturaly. The outer edge of both front tires will wear faster than the rear due to cornering (the tire holds the road w/steering while driving as the rim and vehicle pushes outward causing wear on outer corner of tread). The rear tires will normaly wear flatter across the tread. Rotating will give the chance to even this out among all 4 of your tires --thus longer tire tread life. With this loss of rubber via wear and use, your tire will never wear perfectly in balance. This in mind, it's a good idea to balance your tires. Generaly we rotate tires every 6,000 miles crossing to the drive wheels and bringing other two straight back or front depending on which are the driving wheels (front wheel drive or rear). This will give the tires a new direction every third rotation and a new position on the vehicle to even out wear every 3,000 miles.
Note: If you feel shimmy only at about 50mph plus, and/or it smooths out at higher speeds your tires are out-of-balance. If the shimmy is in your steering wheel (brakes NOT being applied) then it's your front tires, if you feel it in the seat, the rear tires.
BOB ELLIS--
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