Should I Balance My New Tires?

Grit dog wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

wilber1 wrote:
How do you know it isn't balanced? Even if it isn't, why would you add to your problems by adding another unbalanced component that could exaggerate any imbalance? There is more mass and a lot longer arm (radius) to a wheel and tire than a drum. The outside surface of a 235/80R16 ST tire is traveling over 2.5 times faster than the outside surface of a 12" drum.

And probably 2 or 3 times as much mass moving out there too.

You'll have trouble explaining the physics of that to some....as evidenced by some of the posts in this thread.