Tire Balancing Beads?

Seems like the faster youd go the beads would all couple together making an imbalance?

Just put the weights on inside of rim and call it a day

Had a local shop that I refused to go to. They would not get their spin balancer calibrated and always had a vibration, stupid me got a few tires from them before I figured this out. They also had the alignment tech who did not understand the principles of alignment and only did what the machine told  him to do.

You can't use any of these products in 2008 up US cars, you will clog the TPMS sensor or damage it.
I'm halfway through getting the tools needed to clone sensor I.D's so I can swap summers and winters on my Lancer.

I always request my shop to not put weights on the outside of wheels. It eliminates weight damage to the face of rims so no corrosion and it looks better! Stick on lead weights on the inside of the rim always work good for me.

bikerfox wrote: amxdreamer wrote: I always request my shop to not put weights on the outside of wheels. It eliminates weight damage to the face of rims so no corrosion and it looks better! Stick on lead weights on the inside of the rim always work good for me. Except when you are running 68-70 Bendix calipers--they don't mix well with tape weights where tape weights would normally reside.

Are the original bendix that close? I didn't really look at them that close when I removed them from mine for future use. The weights I had installed are quite thin and have no issues with the later style brakes.

I have only built my one car from scratch so am NOT an expert or "master mechanic" by ANY means. I was just pointing out what I did on my AMX and that I do this on my daily drivers, trailers etc. when I get new tires installed or during rebalancing.

One thing that is overlooked by 99.99% of the people mounting new tires is indexing them correctly on the rim. New tires will have a small dot on the sidewall, usually red or yellow. This dot should be lined up with the valve stem, or within 15 degrees of it. The dot & valve stem mark the heavy & light side of the tire & rim. Matching them up can reduce the amount of weight needed to get the assembly balanced, or eliminate weights entirely if you are really lucky. The best mechanic I've ever come across pointed this out to me when I was mounting new tires on some wheels at my friends shop. I was centering the raised white letter name on the valve stem & the mechanic schooled me on why that is the wrong way to do it. I also had a Model A factory service manual that mentioned the same thing, so this isn't new technology.