Hi all,

Loving the Superb but noticed at certain motorway speeds I’m getting slight trembles through the wheel which I know is down to poor wheel balancing.

I had this issue in the past with wheels on my Scirocco, brand new Pirelli Pzero’s which after speaking to Pirelli they sent out their rep who kindly got them ‘dynamically balanced’ free of charge by a tyre specialist (think they were called Protyre). The car drove so smooth afterwards.

It was after that he told me some wider wheels need dynamic balancing as static balancing isn’t enough.

The garage I used in the past are now too far away so I’m trying to find one local in Manchester that can dynamically balance my wheels.

Whenever I ask the run of the mill tyre fitters (e.g. ATS, KwikFit etc) if their machines can dynamically balance I get blank looks or the comment “dunno mate the machine just tells us where to put the weights” lol.

 

If anyone is still awake reading by this point and understands what I’m on about, do you know any good tyre fitters that can help me?

 

 

Edited 20 August, 20223 yr by ffvrs

All fast fit tyre places use a wheel balancer that dynamically balances the wheel.

 

Using a dynamic wheel balancing machine is very simple, as the machine tells the operator where to put the wheel weights.

 

If the wheel balancer is spinning the wheel around using an electric motor to work out where the two wheel weights need to go, then that is dynamic balancing.

 

Edited 20 August, 20223 yr by Carlston

1 hour ago, ffvrs said:

I ask the run of the mill tyre fitters (e.g. ATS, KwikFit etc) if their machines can dynamically balance

What do you mean by "dynamically balance"? @Carlston describes what I'd mean perfectly.

OK so by that do you think all the regular tyre fitters now use dynamic balancers?

I took my previous car to one of these back street garage's who use static balancers hence the concern.

@KenONeill - I'll quote what I pulled from another website as they can articulate better than me 'dynamic balancing is a technique using spinning computer balancers to measure the tire on all three axes'

Protyre are a national chain so you’ll probably have a local branch.

31 minutes ago, ffvrs said:

OK so by that do you think all the regular tyre fitters now use dynamic balancers?

I did not say that. I said what I would mean by a dynamic balancer.

8 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

I did not say that. I said what I would mean by a dynamic balancer.

Sorry meat that response against the original responder.

Most dynamic wheel balancers can also do static balancing as well.

 

Thanks, AG Falco

I think all the fast fit chains have dynamic balancers.

 

The wheel is put on, spun and a computer tells the operator the required weight to use.

 

Of course it does require the operator to actually choose the correct weight from their trays and put it in correct place, and some do not respin it to check now showing zero required.   So always best to choose a quiet time when the crew are standing around and don’t have to rush it.

 

 

@ffvrs  So i read the Pirelli Tyres got balanced correctly and free of charged and all was well. 

 

Just get your next tyres you have fitted or your current one done where is local and if the tyres are not balanced properly return to them until they do it properly.

Millions of tyres in the UK are fitted @ tyre & exhaust centres and others every year correctly.

 

Many of these have been on wider wheels for decades now.

FYI this is the link for a Manchester branch of protyre:

 

https://www.protyre.co.uk/garages/protyre-manchester-ashton-old

 

Obviously I don’t know them and have never used the Manchester branch, but if you wanted us continue to use protyre you can probably speak to them or another in the area.

 

if that’s not in the correct area they have a search here:

 

https://www.protyre.co.uk/local-garages

Edited 21 August, 20223 yr by cheezemonkhai