A balancer is a piece of shop equipment that helps a technician ensure the tire/wheel assembly’s weight is even and balanced, so it rotates smoothly once mounted onto the vehicle. Once balance is ...

Dynamic wheel balancers are powerful pieces of equipment. Performing wheel balancing work safely starts with common sense. Here are a few reminders to help ensure your technicians perform quality work ...

Balanced tires are important for both safety and economic reasons. Heavy vibration resulting from unbalanced tires causes increased wear and the danger of control loss. Because an unbalanced tire ...

It has always been a good idea to balance tires, but with the advent of low profile tire designs, such as the 50-, 60-, 70and 78-series, tire balancing has become a virtual necessity to prolong tread ...

MONTREAL, Que. – You’ve seen it before; an empty trailing bouncing along the road, its wheels spending more time in the air than against the asphalt. Chances are, that trailer’s tires aren’t properly ...

Normal everyday car maintenance is a balancing act. Not only when it comes to recalling its most crucial aspects to keep an eye on (oil change frequency, keeping tires aired up, and so on), but quite ...

Hunter Engineering introduced the GSP9600HD ForceMatch wheel balancer, which offers vibration management and wheel uniformity measurement to a wide range of vehicles from passenger cars to heavy-duty ...

While cleaning out my garage recently, I came across several 5-gallon buckets of lead wheel weights sitting next to a manual tire machine and single-plane static balancer that served me well for ...