Wheel balancing, advice please

roussepi · 03-29-2006, 06:48 PM

Hello everybody,

It's time to change my snow tire for summer tire. My summer tire are already mount on alloy wheel.(2sets of wheels)
I called my dealer to change the wheel; he asked me $89.00 to change it...
He told me that he gone balance the wheel again.

Can you tell me if it's important to balance the wheel each time?

Thank you for your help!

HRC · 03-29-2006, 06:58 PM

If your summer tires are already mounted and balanced, then you just install them, no need for rebalancing. If they have never been balanced than you need to do that.

Danny

ward · 03-30-2006, 01:18 AM

probably a miscommunication

my local tire shop charges about that much to mount and balance a set of tires

a wheel swap should be much cheaper, or you could get a jack and do it yourself (I'd imagine transporting the wheels is a beeyotch)

voltron1011 · 03-30-2006, 10:29 AM

The only thing I can think of that they have the proper machinery to ballance the wheels once they are mounted. When the car is initially manufactured, the wheels get mounted first, and then go to a dyno-type machine that spins the wheels on the car. That way the ENTIRE rotating assemble (including rotors) gets ballanced. This why our cars are so smooth when they are new.

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ward Major General 155 Rep 6,158 Posts Drives: F Join Date: May 2005 Location: T iTrader: (0)	probably a miscommunication my local tire shop charges about that much to mount and balance a set of tires a wheel swap should be much cheaper, or you could get a jack and do it yourself (I'd imagine transporting the wheels is a beeyotch)
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voltron1011 Colonel 119 Rep 2,909 Posts Drives: 2011 135i, FJR-1300 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wiesbaden iTrader: (2)	The only thing I can think of that they have the proper machinery to ballance the wheels once they are mounted. When the car is initially manufactured, the wheels get mounted first, and then go to a dyno-type machine that spins the wheels on the car. That way the ENTIRE rotating assemble (including rotors) gets ballanced. This why our cars are so smooth when they are new. 800 posts!!!
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