Wheel balancing

[yi8tvr]

I have just had some new wheels fitted and the chap at the tyre fitters pointed out that none of my original spiders had been balanced (no lead weights) the car was new in may this year and you cant blame the dealer for not noticing it during the pdi. Blame must be at the factory, if you have just purchased a new tvr check your wheels...

Hopefully its just mine ???..

[RichB]

And were your original Spiders out of balance? Perhaps not if you didn't notice any problems whilst driving it. R...

[yi8tvr]

RichB said:

And were your original Spiders out of balance? Perhaps not if you didn't notice any problems whilst driving it. R...

Massive difference between old and new. If you drove different cars you would notice but how do you compare if they are out. And i guess the chances of a wheel being totally balanced from the manufacturer is remote.

[maddog-uk]

Our was new this year the wheels were definately balanced with stick on lead.

[RichB]

yi8tvr said:

Massive difference between old and new. If you drove different cars you would notice but how do you compare if they are out.

You feel a vibration through the steering, it should have been obvious if it was massivly out. (But surely you know that?) R...

[Seedy Sanchez]

Silverstone TVR did the full balancing job on mine including setting heavy spots on wheel and tyre so they cancelled each other out to reduce the amount of lead required.

The wheel balancing kit the lads at Silverstone have looks seriously impressive and by the look on Matt's face when it arrived it probably is. Never seen anyone get excited by tyre fitting kit before but he is obsessive about getting this kind of attention to detail right. Right down to using Nitrogen for tyre inflation.

They even sent one of my wheels back to TVR for replacement.

[yi8tvr]

RichB said:

yi8tvr said: Massive difference between old and new. If you drove different cars you would notice but how do you compare if they are out. You feel a vibration through the steering, it should have been obvious if it was massivly out. (But surely you know that?) R...

Massive difference and masivly out are quite different Rich. The most noticible difference was the weight, the Pro Comp 1 wheels are much lighter, in fact if you closed your eyes and picked the two up you would think the spider come off a tractor. I guess thats the main difference, but still cant see that all 4 spiders did not need lead. Maybe not alot as the vibration was not noticable until the change could have been put down to the profle of the tyres and our third world roads.

[sacha]

yi8tvr said:

Maybe not alot as the vibration was not noticable until the change could have been put down to the profle of the tyres and our third world roads.

Or you were not doing the speed that showed up the lack of balancing, my wheels were badly balanced, i felt it at 75mph, had them rebalanced, then they were bad at 100mph, rebalanced them again, then finally they were ok.



I live abroad and travel through germany often, so all speeding mentioned was legal....