I will be replacing my tires soon. I have a question about balancing. Which is a better balancing procedure........ spin balance or equal ?Also..... should you balance all six or just the two front ?

viajante wrote:I will be replacing my tires soon. I have a question about balancing. Which is a better balancing procedure........ spin balance or equal ?Also..... should you balance all six or just the two front ?Balance all tires..!Ive had great balancing done with Equal....and Ive had great balancing done with bubble balancing on a spin balancer and added weights. If the operator knows what they are really doing...either method works fine....if they dont know what to do or are sloppy...you just get a mess

I prefer the DynaBeads made especially for RV's. These are larger ceramic beads that do not require special valve cores and work well with a TPMS. The DynaBeads keep the tires balanced at all times even as the tires wear or if you pick up some mud on the rim. For the cost, I balance all six tires on my coach.

Go with the DynaBeads, As stated they always stay balance. All tires

Definitely balance all six. From personal experience I can tell you you'll have longer tire life and a better ride if you do. We had the front tires on our 2001 Adventurer replaced and balanced with Equal powder. They lasted about 60,000 miles before they had to be replaced a second time. A while later we had the 4 rear tires replaced with tires identical to the newer fronts and also "supposedly" balanced with Equal. With a little over 20,000 miles on the new rear tires I could feel a slight imbalance problem from about 45 mph to 55 mph.By the time the tires had 30,000 miles on them the vibration and balance problem became extremely irritating. We finally stopped at a reputable tire store to have the balance powder removed from the rear tires and balance them with external weights. When they started the process they called me back to the shop for an inspection. IT SEEMS THE ORIGINAL SELLING AND INSTALLING DEALER DID NOT INSTALL THE BALANCE POWDER AS THEY WERE PAID TO DO.The tires had gone 30,000 miles without being balanced. They now had large flat spots. No matter what balancing method would be attempted now would have limited results. The tire store did attempt to balance the tires with external weights. The worst one took over 12 ounces of weight while the others took between 8 ounces and 10 ounces.Even with all the weight added the tires still couldn't be balanced to the point there was no vibration. They had to be replaced within another 5,000 miles. Tires that should have gone 60,000 miles only went 35,000 miles because they had never been balanced

I have used spin balance. I have always balance all six.

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MountainAir05
Explorer II
Feb 18, 2015
Go with the DynaBeads, As stated they always stay balance. All tires
rgatijnet1
Explorer III
Feb 18, 2015
I prefer the DynaBeads made especially for RV's. These are larger ceramic beads that do not require special valve cores and work well with a TPMS.
The DynaBeads keep the tires balanced at all times even as the tires wear or if you pick up some mud on the rim. For the cost, I balance all six tires on my coach.
Sully2
Explorer
Feb 18, 2015
viajante wrote:
I will be replacing my tires soon. I have a question about balancing. Which is a better balancing procedure........ spin balance or equal ?
Also..... should you balance all six or just the two front ?

Balance all tires..!

Ive had great balancing done with Equal....and Ive had great balancing done with bubble balancing on a spin balancer and added weights. If the operator knows what they are really doing...either method works fine....if they dont know what to do or are sloppy...you just get a mess

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