Have you ever felt a weird vibration coming from your steering wheel when you’re cruising along the highway or your car shaking when you pick up speed? Or perhaps you’ve noticed that your tires are wearing out faster than usual. If so, you may be seeing the results of imbalanced wheels, which could make for a rough ride and can have some dangerous and expensive side effects. Tire balancing is recommended every 5000 miles and Wonderland Tire uses precision technology to ensure your balancing is done right.
Even if you had your tires balanced before, wheel weights may have fallen off or a dented wheel could result in an imbalance, making it important to get your tires checked and balanced again. Typically, a wheel balance will cost around $10 per tire in addition to the cost of mounting.
Between your tires and wheels, there is a strip of weights that line the inside of the wheel, a part that goes unnoticed by the average driver. Over the life of your wheels, these weights that are initially evenly distributed around the wheel’s circumference will begin to shift, which causes an imbalance in the wheel. This imbalance could be along the horizontal plane of the wheel, which would cause side-to-side vibration, or it could be concentrated in certain spots (either too heavy or too light) on the tire, making for turbulent forward rotation. This could lead to a downgrade in traction and/or shifting, as well as accelerated tread wear, which can have you buying new tires sooner than you might have expected.
Many of the local Wonderland Tire centers use Hunter Engineering systems to ensure that your tire is balanced quickly and with precise accuracy. Wonderland is equipped to perform their test and balance your tires faster than other traditional balancers, eliminating any possible errors and identifying vibration problems.
It’s important to note that imbalanced wheels may not be the only cause to the shaking or vibrating felt in your car while driving. Bent wheels and uneven tread wear can also make for a bumpy ride, and for these issues, you may need new tires altogether.
Feel free to check with Wonderland Tire before having your tires balanced, just to make sure that wheel balancing is what you need. We recommend that you get it done roughly every 5,000 miles, but this estimate could vary depending on how frequently you drive and the conditions that you are driving in.
Check out one of our many locations for any tire balancing questions. Get in and get out!
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