Tire balancing

[SouthernTacoma]

With all of the hype behind Dynabeads and Equal Flexx, I am wondering what everyone else's experience has been with the powder/ball tire balancing products.

Or should I stick with the old fashioned stick on tire weights?

I have 255/80r17 Cooper ST MAXX along with 17" SCS wheels, before I have them mounted and new TPMS installed, I am just wondering what would work out better in the long run as far as balancing. I have read many mixed reviews on the new ways of balancing, but I have also lost wheel weights before as well, causing me to have a tire or two rebalanced

 

[theick]

I really want to try the dynabeads. You hear about great success stories as well as horror stories on the web. I doubt there will ever be a real consensus but I think it's worth a try.

 

[DanR]

Clip on weights, on both sides of the wheel are the best way to go. Stick-ons are sometimes required the closer to the outside edge of the wheel, the better.

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[MOAK]

About 20 years ago beads were experimented with in the trucking industry. If beads in tires worked as advertised, every fleet truck, nationwide would be using them. Using beads is not cost beneficial. Quality Steer tires on big trucks last about 150,000 miles. Drive tires can last twice that long. If beads or nitrogen saved even 1/10th of a penny a per 500 miles per tire, the big fleets would be using them. 1/10th penny per day per tire (18) x 5,000 trucks x 365 that's $328,000 a year, a substantial cost benefit. And that's for only 5,000 trucks. Imagine what 1/10th of a penny means nationwide for the over 2 million tractors in the U. S. let alone the 5.5 million trailers. The experiment conducted some 20 years ago failed miserably. The same type of experiments garnered the same results when large fleets experimented with nitrogen in tires. Bottom line? If the trucking industry isn't doing it, then we shouldn't be wasting our money either.