Wheel Weights

Yes you should have your trailer wheels balanced. If you're concerned with the weights falling off, consider using ceramic beads placed inside the tires. The Bead system works great and the wheels stay balanced regardless of which roads you travel on.

I think that the loss of wheel weights is usually caused by incorrect weights or poor installation. That type of weight to be used depends on the type of wheel.

Whiskey River wrote:
Has anyone had trouble with wheel weights falling off or coming off their trailer be it 5th wheel or travel trailer. I stopped at a tire shop last week to price tires and ask if the price included mount & balance. He said they usually do not balance tires for a trailer, any type trailer, ie horse trailer, trailer for hauling or RV, because they come off bouncing over bridge expansion joints, pot holes etc. They will balance them but just wondered if that is true....

I've lost lead weights off my trucks wheels before when I was on the road full time. Never lost one on my rv trailer or any of my working trailers as I don't use them nor did they come on the OEM tires.

Trailer lugs are notorious for working loose especially on a new wheels till they get worked in from side stress created as they side scrub around corners and especially being lug centered.

I would say a trailers wheel is more apt to shed lead weights, if it does, than the tow vehicle.

You would have to ask those that have lost wheel weights what they think is the reason theirs came off their trailer.

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Balancing trailer wheels :H

YEP......you betcha
If it goes round and round at SPEED balancing can only help



Loosing wheel weights
NOPE.....

All wheels are balanced when tires are installed.
Never lost a weight on any wheel

Shocks on trailer axles help control the bouncing also.

X2!
Yes balance as it is spinning, and X2 to shocks, our TV was in the shop when we
Needed to change parks, so I followed the hauler and it to the new park. I knew the rough spots on the road, watching the 5er go over them smoothly from the rear was interesting to watch.

Having worked in a tire shop, we had multiple styles of weights and a chart on what manufacturer used what weight. There was only one style for steel wheels.

Balancing trailer wheels :H

YEP......you betcha
If it goes round and round at SPEED balancing can only help



Loosing wheel weights
NOPE.....

All wheels are balanced when tires are installed.
Never lost a weight on any wheel

Shocks on trailer axles help control the bouncing also.

Nope, not true. Trailer wheels are no more apt to lose a weight than a vehicles wheel.
Huge discussion here last week you can read. True to rvnet form, you'll find supporters of not balancing tires.......for whatever reason.
I would and do balance all highway tires.

never had an issue. on one trailer it has steel wheels with the weights on the rim, the other has aluminum wheels with tape on.

Along with a neighbor with aluminum wheels on the trailer. between the two of us we have over 200,000 miles combined and never lost a wheel weight.