I got a flat the other day took my wheel in yesterday got a used tire put on til I get a new lower profile set soon but once I got home I realized there were no weights on the inside. Its got me a little worried since it had weights with the old tire should I be worried. Tire size is 235-40-18 if tht helps. I watched him put it on the machince to balance it I think he did it twice if I remember correctly

 

With used tires it kind of tricky and sometimes impossible to balance.

 

Try driving about 50-60 mph and if u feel it shake then your not balance.and try breaking and the car should not pull left or right.if it don't shake or pull then your good

 

So I shouldn't be worried? It feels the same as before maybe a little more vibration I could just be paranoid haha

 

Don't worry, drink a few beers & all will feel OK!
On the serious side, should not be a problem if sort time before right tires are on & rebalanced !

 

whenever I get tires mounted, i always get rebalanced.

 

It all depends on what type of balance they did, There are some that you put sticky weights right in the middle of the rim some that clamp on ect. If he did a static balance there would only be weight on one side of the wheel, if it were dynamic balanced it would have weight on both sides

as said before used tires can get tricky, but balanced is balanced as long as it looks as if he put weight on the wheel I say your good.

 

Cory. Dont be worried. He might have gotten lucky and the wheel was balanced without,weights. New tires have yellow dots and red dots on them usually. Telling you where to place the valve stem while mounting. I balance tires all the time and I will get lucky sometimes and not use any weights at all. If he knows what,hes doing there shouldnt be more then one weight per side. Meaning next to each other is okay. Such as he needs 2oz but only has 2 one ounce weights then thats okay but 90degrees or 180degrees opposite nono. Used tires are the same as new ones. No difference.

 

Ya I think it might be ok talked to my supervisor about it last night he used to work for les Schwab an said sometimes you get lucky like tht an wont have to use weights. But like I said I seen him throw it on there an run it. I might just throw it on the back an put one of the rears on the front

 

This is easy to test: Just grab a sharpie marker and a creeper. Get on the creeper under the truck and hold onto something solid while a friend brings the truck up to speed... Say, 30 miles per hour or so. when its up to speed, have your friend signal you by blowing the horn. When you hear the horn sound, observe the wheel and if it looks like it is "wobbling", stab at the wheel with the sharpie marker to mark the point that weight is needed. Add weight and repeat until the wobble is gone. And there you go! A perfectly balanced wheel!

Ok, seriously, its been a LOOONG time since I've balanced wheels, but I remember having some that didn't require weight on either the front or back. Tires and wheels both can have some play in the process of manufacturing and will rarely come out perfectly balanced. That and a tire that is perfectly balanced when new can end up unbalanced as the tread wears. I had a set of 35" Mickey's on the Explorer that I could have swore had little elves inside shifting weights around just to annoy me. The tires would wear a few 32nd's and start to wobble. Get them re-balanced... Wear a few more 32nd's... wobble. repeat, repeat, repeat.
Bottom line is: If the machine and the operator are good, the tire should be balanced once it comes off the balancer.

 

Depends on what shop you took it too, especially a wheel 17 and up, most tire techs will go the easy route and do a static balance wich can use either hammer on weight on inside lip, or tape wights right under the lip area, if I would recommend anyone who gets ne tires on any custom wheels I would highly recomment a Alloy 1 balance it is a counter balance but much more smoother for less vibrations at high speeds, a static balance is ok but you will still get some slight vibrations at higher speeds and tires will slowly start to feather and then once that starts its going to be like that for the life of the tires, I used to be a manager and NTB National Tire and Battery so have alot of experience with these issues..hope this helps