Balancing Trailer Tires - yes or no
Replaced the tires on the trailer yesterday (Goodyear Endurance). After mounting the new tires, the guys were bringing them over to the trailer to install. I asked if they had been balanced and they...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Unless you spin balance your tires on your trailer you're pretty much wasting your time. Unlike car and truck hubs and drums, trailer components don't have balance weights. You can get your tires within a micro gram but everything else will be out to lunch which means everything else will be out to lunch.......or on the money......you just can't tell unless everything in the system is balanced.
I have posted similar comments for years now. The thing is that you won't convince anyone and I have never heard back that a drum or hub was ever checked. I balance mine as an assembly, others will be blissfully unaware that they still have a poorly balanced assembly.
