When to balance wheels?

Properly balanced wheels have a significant impact on driving comfort and tire life.

Properly balanced wheels have a significant impact on driving comfort and tire life.

 

Driving a vehicle with unbalanced wheels (statically or dynamically) causes accelerated driver fatigue, as the forces generated by the rotation of the road wheels create noise and vibrations that are transmitted to the suspension and steering. Wheel imbalance also causes accelerated tire wear.

For these reasons, wheels should always be balanced when tires are first installed and when tires are changed seasonally. It is advantageous to balance the wheels every 10 90 km. When we detect the presence of steering vibrations when driving on a flat surface at a speed of more than XNUMX km / h, the wheels must be balanced regardless of the distance traveled.

The immediate causes of the loss of shape and dimensions that cause wheel imbalance are: hard braking with wheel locking, when a black tire mark remains on the surface, and starting with the so-called tire squeal, because then the rubber layer wears out very unevenly.