1 MEAN66
Senior Member
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2022
- Posts
- 311
- Reaction score
- 350
- Location
- Waterford NY
- Ram Year
- 2016
- Engine
- Hemi 5.7 VVT-MDS
If they (the tires) are causing the vibration THEN THEY ARE NOT BALANCED!!!!!!! at least PROPERLY!!!!! But wheels can also cause vibrations! Out of round or bent. GO some where else then the shops you tell us that you are using. It makes no difference what "machine" is used if the operator does not know how to use it! All machines (balancers) need to be calibrated once in a while. A road force machine "balances" tires no differently than any other machine!!!! The "Road Force" portion Of this machine is there to try and simulate the -road force- that the road applies to tires by driving on them. Tires can just be balanced on a "road force" balancer WITHOUT doing "ROAD FORCE"! It is used to help to find the high spot in the tire and the wheel so that you can get the individual tire and wheel to be as round as possible so the least amount of weight is needed to to the "balance" part of the job. The "road force" portion of the process LOADS the tire to help find internal tire problems. Nothing is perfectly round and/or balanced. The "rounder" you can make them the longer they should last. Every time you rotate (4k-6k miles) and there is a specific way that they should be rotated!! Base on FWD, RWD, AWD, 4WD, 2WD,etc. Rotation isnot necessary of course, it just has the capability to make a 40k "expected" tire life tire maybe get 60K?? Machines do not fix anything if no one is taught how to use them or MAINTAIN them. If they are put in any shop and never see any maintenance they can get out of calibration ALSO! You do maintenance to your vehicles (machines) - right? Manufactures of balancers have tech that do maintenance to their -machines, and teach new employee's (operators of their machines how to use them correctly!