Balanced My Tires - Finally, and I found the trick here! Options

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Well, after 3 trips back to the tire shop I have them balanced. You'll think this is nuts but try it. First let's give credit where it is due. I clicked on the link posted on aircooledtechguys signature and found this article on balancing tires with air ball bb's. $9 at Wally's and you have enough for 20 tires. It was listed under under "cheap tools" on his website. Basically you put 1.5 oz's in each tire and thats it. So the 3rd trip I took 4 bags weighed out at 1.5 ounces each with these plastic 6.5mm bb's and had the "tire dude" break the beads and insert the bb's. I got some funny looks but it seems to have worked. PS. These can't be used if you have a tire sealer additive in your tires, ever! He shows white balls in his article but I much preferred the competition red bb's.
http://aircooledtech.com/tools-on-the-cheap/balancing_beads/

[Katmanken]

Andy,

You are not quite getting my point, and being a geek engineer, I usually explain with a lot of pictures and arrows

The passengers are the balls. Let's take your plane analogy, its better.

If the plane swerves sharply, the passengers are thrown to the sidewall of the plane- just like the little balls in the tire.

My point that seems to be elusive is: when the passengers or the balls are plastered against the sidewall, the former balance (if it existed) is changed to an imbalance because the balls have moved to the sidewall. Just like moving the lead weights on the wheel while it is moving.

Nah, I didn't get Schroedingers wrong. One of the discussion points is you don't know what is going on in the box until you open it. You can theorize, but until you open the box, you just don't know. Kinda like ball movement in a dynamically moving tire. Hence the previous request for a camera.