Max Weight used to Balance Tires
If you are buying new LT tires, no matter the brand, what would be the Max amount of weight to balance would you accept before you would say give me a different tire?
Forum Discussion
colliehauler wrote:time2roll wrote:That is what I thought as well. I've had to tell the person mounting the tires to line up the dots before. Good tire person will know this.Old-Biscuit wrote:If the installer knows his stuff he will line up the tire using the dots from the start.
Rotate the tire on the rim and re-balance ---I am NOT leaving here with that much weight hanging on a new tire,
And it rotating the tire on the rim doesn't do it....get another tire
After rotating the tire 180* it took 1 weight to balance
https://www.tires-easy.com/blog/what-are-the-red-and-yellow-dots-on-my-tires/
Ah ..... Mmmmmmm ..... Not exactly.
First, there is no standard as to what the dots on tires mean - or even if there need to be dots.
Further, the valve stem hole in a wheel is almost always punched in a random location. The only other potential mark is a center punch mark, but it is rarely used and it's hard to find even when it is used.
Ergo, matching dots on tires with anything on the wheels is almost always random matching - so why do it? (Note: It doesn't do any harm, but the average tire buster will quickly learn it's a waste of time and effort.)
