How often does wheel balancing needs to be done?



First of all, you need to understand that wheel balancing is a prolonging/preventative regular maintenance service and not a correctional lifelong guaranteed service.

In fact, wheels and tyres are never exactly the same weight all around. The wheel's valve stem hole will usually subtract a small amount of weight from that side of the wheel. Tyres will also have slight weight imbalances, whether from a joining point of the cap plies or a slight deviation from perfectly round. At high speeds, even a tiny imbalance in weight can become a large imbalance in outward force, which could cause the wheel and tyre assembly to spin in a heavy and uneven motion. This usually turns into a vibration that could cause uneven and damaging wear on the tyres.

Maintaining proper wheel balance is a critical part of maintaining the life of the tyre.
Balance Changes Over Time: As the tyre wears, the balance will slowly and dynamically change over time. Most good tyre places will want to rebalance when tyres are rotated. Rebalancing at least once over the life of the tyres will almost certainly extend their lifetime. Balancing will not prevent vibrations from a bent wheel, out of round tyre, or irregular wear, needless to say that balancing can't compensate for a problem that is actually physical, only for weight differences that was already affected.

Wheels lose balance over time, so wheel balancing service is necessary to restore proper balance. Tread wear causes the distribution of weight around the tyre to change. This leads to an imbalance that causes the vehicle to shake or vibrate. During wheel balancing service, our technician will use a calibrated spin balancer. Improperly balanced wheels will be adjusted to the proper balance. Tyre balancing is typically performed when tyres are rotated on the vehicle, which is usually estimated at every 6 months and preferably when new tyres are being fitted.

NOTE: While you rotate your tyres, also balance them!

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