Tire truing/shaving Las Vegas Area

Brett,
"Balancing, by whatever method will NOT make an "egg-shaped" tire run smooth."

You took the words right out of my mouth.
Scott

Balancing, by whatever method will NOT make an "egg-shaped" tire run smooth.

Truing is an excellent method if rotating the tire on the wheel does not eliminate run-out.

lunch surfer wrote:
Might try these. Mine work great.

http://centramatic.com/

ctc

I have those already, had them on my last motorhome and now this one, they do work but I believe I have one front tire on passenger side that needs to be balance and reset on rim.

Centramatic only works up to a point but even they say sometimes further balancing might be needed in some cases.

There's nothing wrong with truing a tire. I've had it done several times. But, as others have suggested, do try a simpler alternative first. When we purchased our present coach, an '04 Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330 CAT, we flew from San Diego to Reno NV to pick it up. Within the first few miles of smooth 395 freeway, I felt quite a bit of vibration in the front end. Well, I was not going to drive 500-600 miles with that going on.

So, long story short. The tires were only ten months old and were under a warranty from Les Schwab. So, in Carson City, I contacted a L/S tire dealer and told them of the problem. They said come right in. We parked the coach in the stall and stood back and watched. The tech removed the front two tires and wheels.

He placed them on the balance machine and noticed something wrong, right off the bat. He said, the tire is not on the rim correctly. So, he deflated it, rotated it just a tad and, re-inflated it. He'd already removed all the weights that the original installed had placed on there. When it was all said and done, that tire and wheel needed about 1/3 of the weights that the original installer installed.

He checked the other front tire and found the same exact thing. He said it's really rare to find TWO tires mounted incorrectly on a 22.5 setup but, it happened on mine. WE got back on the same stretch of freeway and, smoooooooooooth as glass.

But, I've had other situations that, the tires were UN TRUE. So, I had them shaved or, "trued" and, again, smooooth as glass. So, the point, there are some "out of round tires" out there. If you're unlucky enough to acquire one or more, two choices, exchange them for ROUND tires or, get them shaved.
Scott

Might try these. Mine work great.

http://centramatic.com/

ctc

The Firestone dealer on Blue Diamond Road has a Hunter Force Balancing machine.

First, they test the tire with 1500 pounds of force, rotate the tire as necessary, then run the test again. A year ago it was $32.0 per tire. Our 2012 Tour is smooth like a Cadillac. Good luck.

darsben wrote:
Call
Redburn Tire - Las Vegas

4710 East Cartier Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89115

Phone: (702) 643-7033

if they cannot help you they will know who can

Thanks for the info. I just called there shop and they recommend the hunter force balance over shaving the tires, I will have my RV into them next week and let you know the results.

darsben wrote:
Call
Redburn Tire - Las Vegas

4710 East Cartier Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89115

Phone: (702) 643-7033

if they cannot help you they will know who can

I recently purchased tires from Redburn Tire in Mesa, AZ. They had a Hunter Balancer that read runout of tire and rim. Gave operator a readout of where to rotate tire on rim to get roundest tire and wheel assembly. My motorhome has not ran as smooth. It was OK before, better now.
Not sure they have the same machine at their other locations.
Hunter Force Match HD.

Rollnhome wrote:

Bikeboy57 wrote:
Before you shave the tire, you might think about airing it down, breaking it loose and rotating one eighty. It's the first step in the Michelin service manual for an out of round tire. It would be easy to assume that the rotation is to move the high spot to the other side, but that's not the purpose. It is common for the tire not to seat exactly centered. Plus it stretches slightly after inflation. Deflating and rotating simply give the tire a second chance to seat more centered after the bead has stretched.

X2 Rotate the tire on the rim and reseal. Sometimes the wheel and tire vibration can be resolved by repositioning the tire on the wheel.

Good advice here. I had the same condition on a new coach and the problem was a tire that would go out of round at speed. You should have the tire spun up to highway speed and check the runout.

Bikeboy57 wrote:
Before you shave the tire, you might think about airing it down, breaking it loose and rotating one eighty. It's the first step in the Michelin service manual for an out of round tire. It would be easy to assume that the rotation is to move the high spot to the other side, but that's not the purpose. It is common for the tire not to seat exactly centered. Plus it stretches slightly after inflation. Deflating and rotating simply give the tire a second chance to seat more centered after the bead has stretched.

X2 Rotate the tire on the rim and reseal. Sometimes the wheel and tire vibration can be resolved by repositioning the tire on the wheel.