Good Tire Shop/New Tires!

The place I went to this weekend to have my tires mounted sucked. I'm going to go back and demand a refund for the shit balancing job they did. I know it's hard to balance these tires but come on dont charge me for it and do a half assed job. ANY WAY.

My tires wobble pretty bad from 50-55 and then sometimes also speratically. I knew putting these tires on they would be loud and wouldnt act like the AT's I had before but this wobble is horrible.

Anybody know of any good tire shops that can balance my wheels and actually knows something about tires. May have to balance with beads/powder the way this is going. Probably going to lose weights on the trails anyway.

Thanks!

Just did some research and this seems to be the way to go

http://www.innovativebalancing.com/

http://www.counteractbalancing.com/counteract/

anybody running them or have any experience with them?

On a positive note this is how mean they look on my truck





Tires are 2" bigger than the others

What kind of tires, swampers? in a shops defense, thse tires are a bitch to balance because theyre so chunky. I would take them off pop a bead, and toss in some dynabeads or semething.

As for wheel weights on the outside of your wheels. I've lost weight on at least one wheel the last two times ive gone wheeling

durt d1ver wrote:

What kind of tires, swampers? in a shops defense, thse tires are a bitch to balance because theyre so chunky. I would take them off pop a bead, and toss in some dynabeads or semething.

As for wheel weights on the outside of your wheels. I've lost weight on at least one wheel the last two times ive gone wheeling

I go back today and guy tells me the other guy didn't balance the front and tells me one of the front rims are bent. Hence th wobble. He flipped bent rim to rear and balanced the other wheels. Fuck this place for trying to scam me. I honestly could see that the rim was bent when it was rotating. Who knows... I'm going to write some reviews for them.

The wobble isn't as bad but I should do bushings and check to make sure dampner isn't wrecked since it is dented. Will so the death wobble check list this week.

The weights look stupid on my passenger side front lol 5 lbs of lead! I'm going to lose them all on the next trip and have to drive home on wobbly swampers. Dynabeads? Any reviews?

some people like the beads some don't and some go ghetto with BB's or other crap. lots of scooter and motorcycle guys use them. i have never tried em, but like Brian said i have lost a weight or two in my last few trips out.

Hilltoppersx wrote:

some people like the beads some don't and some go ghetto with BB's or other crap. lots of scooter and motorcycle guys use them. i have never tried em, but like Brian said i have lost a weight or two in my last few trips out.

Yea I lost like a whole wheels worth at Rausch. I may try Dynabeads eventually. They still wobble but I'm going to do steering bushings and relocate my damper before I really worry about it.

Dynabeads are the shit on agressive tires. Never need rebalanced and they never get knocked off. I run Dynabeads in everything I drive from the disco to my 18 wheeler, I will say after 150,000 miles they are more like powder then BB's but I dont forsee to many off road tires making it that long. You can install them threw the valve stem it take a while but it can be done.

Long Haul wrote:

Dynabeads are the shit on agressive tires. Never need rebalanced and they never get knocked off. I run Dynabeads in everything I drive from the disco to my 18 wheeler, I will say after 150,000 miles they are more like powder then BB's but I dont forsee to many off road tires making it that long. You can install them threw the valve stem it take a while but it can be done.

Gonna go for it once I sell these other tires.

They fit it regular valve stems right?

Yes theyll fit threw a standard valve stem (core removed of course). I had a small plastic funnel that just fit over the outside of the stem an slowly poured them in, it took probably 5-10 min a wheel but we couldnt get my bead to break loose from the rim.

Long Haul wrote:

Yes theyll fit threw a standard valve stem (core removed of course). I had a small plastic funnel that just fit over the outside of the stem an slowly poured them in, it took probably 5-10 min a wheel but we couldnt get my bead to break loose from the rim.

Cool that's exactly what I wanted to know/hear. Driving these tires to Billys and back was an experience. I'm going to order some soon and replace the panhard bushings all at the same time.

Jake wrote:

Driving these tires to Billys and back was an experience. .

grab a hold of that wheel and suck it up.

Hilltoppersx wrote:

Jake wrote:

Driving these tires to Billys and back was an experience. .

grab a hold of that wheel and suck it up.

My wheels wobbled loose on the way to advanced auto to return the spring compressors thankfully I heard them clanking and tightened them back up before we got on the highway. Have to torque them extremely hard now.

now that i got the sway bars off my turning raduis is a little better. i think my left front tire was rubbing on the sway bar at full lock.

Hilltoppersx wrote:

now that i got the sway bars off my turning raduis is a little better. i think my left front tire was rubbing on the sway bar at full lock.

Mines better with the new tires. I think the spacers are in my mailbox at home but Hannah has the key in DC. She will be back today and once I get those on I should have a pretty awesome radius. Will be great for the streets and narrow trails when I need to turn around.