Wheel Balancing Weights vs Beads?
We have a 28' MH, gas, Ford 450, V-10 engine with 245/70R19.5 tires. The Goodyear Center was not able to balance the 2 front tires with the standard metal weights on the rim due to a lack of a part ne...
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Beads work fine. In some ways, they're superior to wheel weights: they can't come loose or fall off, and they will automatically compensate for changes in balance as the tire wears or (to some extent, at least) as dirt or whatever gets stuck to the wheel.
The Cadillac equivalent to beads are Centramatic rings; they're roughly beads in their own separate hoop-shaped tube. I suppose the Centramatics may have some advantages for out-of-round or non-concentric tires (so long as the rings themselves remain concentric). The other obvious advantage to Centramatics, that doesn't apply at all in your case, is that they can be installed without having to dismount the tires.
The Cadillac equivalent to beads are Centramatic rings; they're roughly beads in their own separate hoop-shaped tube. I suppose the Centramatics may have some advantages for out-of-round or non-concentric tires (so long as the rings themselves remain concentric). The other obvious advantage to Centramatics, that doesn't apply at all in your case, is that they can be installed without having to dismount the tires.
