Balancing 19.5's
How are most of you balancing your 19.5's? I had my tires rotated on my F450 and the tire shop said they could not balance them with conventional weights due to the rims requiring a different style of...
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Boatycall wrote:brinson wrote:
I believe as suggested, I need to find another tire shop.
Yup....
I just put six new shoes on my F450, and I went to a small commercial tire place that works mostly on big rigs. 80mph, no vibrations at all, smooth as my Corvette. When it's only in 2nd heading for 3rd...
Here's what Paul Harvey used to call... "And now, the rest of the story"
Your beads-- it's BS. I have found that 90% of all tires shops by me cannot balance 19.5's because they do not have the proper hub/spindle cone to physically get a 19.5 on their balancer. So they didn't have the equipment to work on your rig, and they made up a line of BS.
I found out the hard way Pep Boys cannot work on 19.5's. After handing over my money and 3 hours in their shop, they finally admitted they hadn't even gotten one done due to them promising they DID have the equipment to work on them, when in fact, they didn't....
That is basically the same story I got at 4 local shops. I am just going to have to search further from home. I did go to 2 truck shops. They did not want anything to do with the aluminum wheels.
