Heavy walled truck tires are just hard to keep balanced. The weights fly off after a while. Some are glued on some pressed on the bead, but it’s a continuing problem. Centramatic automatic balancers ...
Avoiding tire problems starts with you, the vehicle driver. The problems listed ahead have unique reasons that cause them.
Balanced tires are important for both safety and economic reasons. Heavy vibration resulting from unbalanced tires causes increased wear and the danger of control loss. Because an unbalanced tire ...
It has always been a good idea to balance tires, but with the advent of low profile tire designs, such as the 50-, 60-, 70and 78-series, tire balancing has become a virtual necessity to prolong tread ...
It used to be difficult to find a tire shop that had a spin balance machine that could balance very large tires, so bubble balance was used. It was also common to see large 1- to 2-pound masses of ...
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., Sept. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IMI, a leading innovator in tire and wheel solutions for the commercial trucking industry, is reaffirming the value of FLEXX – its proven internal ...