How To Mount and Balance A Tire -EricTheCarGuy
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
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I often get asked how to mount and balance a tire with tools at home and the truth is that's WAYYY too hard. It's much better and easier to use the equipment that was designed for it. In this video I show exactly that, how to use the proper equipment to mount and balance a tire. It's not terribly exciting but I do show some things that are necessary when performing this work on an aluminum wheel. You MUST clean the bead area before you mount a new tire onto an aluminum wheel or else it will forever leak at the bead. I say this because all too often I see a tire that leaks air that's just been installed where the rim was not cleaned. Enough of my soap box. Also this video only covers the 'basic' tire mount and balance. When it comes to low profile or large tires it's a bit more complicated. As far as tires go these are pretty easy and straightforward.
I'd like to thank my friend Scott Armstrong for his assistance and for letting us film in his garage. If you're in the Cincinnati area and looking for auto repair work I suggest you contact him as he's a heck of a mechanic.
Armstrong Automotive: 513-939-3903
email: scott@armstrongautomotivellc.com
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Something to note as being a mechanic: when breaking the tire seals, always be mindful of where the valve stem is, because some wheels, especially on new cars, have sensors that connect to the inside rim. If the machine arm hits that sensor, chances are,mits going to be crushed and 99% of the time damaged. To prevent this, keep the valve stem at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions, to break the seal on both sides of the tire and to keep the sensor as far as possible from the tire.
Good point, sorry for being 9 years late
Me being a tire guy myself, I really appreciated how thoroughly he cleaned the bead of the wheel before mounting the tire, however, I ALWAYS go a step further and bead seal the wheel after cleaning it. I found that the soapy water solution I use for lubrication can enhance the rate at which the wheel corrodes. So the bead sealer not only seals the bead of the wheel to the rubber, it seals the clean surface of the rim and helps fight corrosion.
Hello, what brand of sealer do you use?
Thank you, finally one of the few videos that explain how to in detail! just got a job at a tyre fitting store and just wanted to have a good understanding great video
Same hoping I catch on loll
Thank you Scott and Eriic. This brought back memories balancing tires with a dynamic balancer which had strobe lines indicating somewhat were the weights went....and bubble balancing for two piece truck ringed rims....widowmakers.
Noticed the 12min+ video length and was about to abort.. glad I didn't there wasn't much filler, and turned out to be just what I was looking for. Great video.
Great to know there's a good mechanic in my area, thanks for pointing me his way Eric.
very helpful video for a new tire technician, Eric is one of the most professionally skilled and helpful technician. God bless you guys.
As someone who mounted and balanced tires for 2 years, it's nice to see someone actually clean the lip of the rim for once. Beware of the cheap tire places because the kids working there mostly are never taught this ending up in rims leaks. He is right that bead sealer is crap. It's like trying to polish a turd.
I just started as a mechanic student at a technical institute. And this helped me out alot instead of some of the jibber-jabber my textbook say. Thanks!
For some reason these machines were my favorite part of Auto school. thanks for the nostalgia Eric!
This video is really helpful. I have a test today in my auto shop class on how to mount a tire. Thanks Eric!
Eric's the MAN.Friendly greetings from Crete - Hellas (Greece to ya all)
Super chill video great info thank you both! I don’t know anything about tires & just learned a whole lot just by this video specifically why I seen weights on side of tires 😮
I had Yokohama Avid's on my 2001.5 Passat. They were the best tire I've ever put on a car. Long life, quiet and handled like a dream. Eric, you'll love them. I had Blizzaks for winter. Similarly, the best SUV tire is the Bridgestone Duelers, great wear, relatively quiet and for someone that goes off-road, they do great in mud and snow. Good vid bud.
Thanks for the video. I mounted my own tires and had them balanced at the Schwab. The portion showing the removal of the corroded rubber was helpful.
Jonathan Whitman the rubber doesn't corrode, it's the aluminum alloy oxidizing
Great video Eric. Really shows exactly how the pros change a tire. It's too bad that most shops wont allow people to see how the work is done. Nice that through you people can see exactly what is being done to their vehicles. And to be able to make informed choices about who will work on their cars and trucks.
I used to work for walmart tire and lube. This video certainly took me back.
We used the soapy stuff for lubing the bead. We also used special torx sticks for mounting wheels back onto the vehicle which were color coded to a particular vehicle. These trox sticks were designed snap first before the stud would if too much touque was applied. Dummy proof lol
Thanks for the video Eric and Scott!
So much knowledge now I know why it took so long waiting to get 4 New Tires on my Rx 350
I just love how Eric is so excited lol
Love this video. Very helpful dude, thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Thanks for the video, it was educational amd entertaining! Sadly I don't have any of the tools to do this myself but I got a few chuckles so that will have to do.
Scott's a pretty cool guy, I will look into that 'Slippery' spray he used that seems way better than using my lard bucket.
Wow- that Scott's a pro- glad to see that they still exist in a sketchy industry like _auto-repair._ Good upload.
I use balancing beads because its what I have access to in the shop, we use them in our semi tires. Not sure if there supposed to be used in smaller car tires, but figured why not when they even make them for motorcycle tires. Been using for years with no issues. Super easy to use just weight tire and weight bag full of them to throw in tire before you seal it. Might want to do research before trying them yourself if curious not my responsibility if it fucks up your tires, but they work for me.
Hi Erik, One added note is that if you have puncture, and need to remove the tire to put a batch underneath which is more secure than the external type and you do not want to upset the balance or do not want to pay more for the balance is to hold with you a correction fluid (white fluid used in offices for correcting typo errors on printed documents) and put a dot on the balance bullet and another one on the tire and third one on the wheel prior wheel removal so that every thing is aligned back.
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you for a great film. If you are installing asymmetric tires, there are words on them indicating the inside and outside wall. How do you know which weight (what form, long, short) to apply? Does it matter or only weight matters?
Thanks for posting, I enjoyed watching this!
I'm glad I could provide what will hopefully be some helpful insight. Just to add to it, your second two thoughts, that is corrosion on the wheel when it was installed, and corrosion developing since installation are both very common problems. For reasons I don't fully understand, these problems become more noticeable in the winter. It could be, as you pointed out, the salt that becomes an issue, but I have a sneaky feeling there are other contributing factors...
Thanks Eric from my bottom of heart
Hey Eric do you have a video about "how tires work"? - like how they wear and what sipes are and why tires are really important? - or maybe like what underinflation vs. overinflation does? I had a wicked cool experience once where I got stuck in soft sand and deflated my tires to get out! - at which point super make sure that you can reinflate your tires if not onsite then ASAP.
Scott has a miraculously clean shop. I can only dream of such a thing...
im workin exactly in this field in finland and ow boy we these a lot sometimes tires are flat sometimes rims and shred and those two machines will do the job how ever ive noticed when he get the tire to pressurize he needs to overpresurrize it and then to bring it to the wanted value because say when u blance ur wheel amd specialy with outter counter weights its very important to pressurize but none the less its a great video on this dark proffesion yet there is a ton of thing for instance the sensors rims are indeed very hard to do specialy with tires like p zero pirelli those i guarantee u are the most difficult and when u got 4 of them then ur done. thanks keep up.and his from finland the only country where we are obliged by law to switch winter and summer tires twice a year.....
Had no idea about any of this.. just started driving 2 months ago and am in the process of getting winter tires.. lets just say I thought I had to buy innertubes like a bike tire.. lol
good to learn this stuff
I always used side cutters for removing and placing valve stems. And it would've probably been a good idea to mention and show to take care when removing a tire from a wheel that has TPMS sensors.
you sir are a gentleman and a scholar. I'm about to buy my first car and teach my nephew how to maintenance it. I have you to thank.
See the winterization video. Tires loose traction over time and these were no good on wet roads anymore. Remember when you point a finger at someone there are 3 more pointing back at you. :)
I just got a job at Sears Auto Center and this is one of the things I’m gonna have to do, it seemed difficult at first but hopefully with time I get better and faster lol
that balancing machine is really neat!!! wish the shop i work at had something that flash!!
anyway cool vid!!!
Hehehehe the idea behind the dots, usually there's a yellow and a red. The yellow is the lightest point of the tyre, the red is the heaviest.
You're meant to balance just the rim alone to find where the light spot is. Then you put the red dot (the heaviest point of the tyre) at the lightest point. If you don't want to balance the wheel, the yellow dot should be placed around the valve because it's a logically-heavier spot of the wheel; It's strengthened to make up for the hole in the metal and has the valve sat there.
Remove tyre. Clean wheel rim. Place rim on balance machine and check wheel balance values. Mark lightest/heaviest spots of the rim with caulk/crayon. Place rim on tyre machine and mount tyre, lining up the dots as needed. Heavy rim spot wants the light tyre spot and vica-versa.
Isn't the red dot the highest point in the tire, not the heaviest?
Way to go Scott!! Thanks for sharing!!
When i was on work experience at a Subaru dealership here in Australia, this is what i did!, had so fun doing it.
Thank you for this video, great information!
few mistakes I noticed hold the knob on the bead breaker so it wont move, always good to lube the beads before removing tire(less stress bead removal wedge),hold the tire down in the valley opposite from the wedge when installing.Things you left out about balancing- measurements(wheel width, size, and most balancers need distance inner bead to balancer distance)3 main types of balancing Normal like you showed,Static like you explained,and Mag(weight inside only).Oh dot is lightest part of tire.
So satisfying watching a pro do his thing!
So I'll be going back to an automotive tech program in a few years (had to drop out of it recently) and I was wondering how to make sure you don't rip the bead either removing or putting the tire back on? That always gave me so much anxiety especially with low profile tires. Is there a sure fire way of making sure you don't rip the bead?
i agree 100% on using the valve stem tool the way it "isnt" supposed to be used (pulling on it rather that using it as a lever), because you wont scratch the rim. also, you must take caution when dealing with TPM sensors on the valve stem. you can crush it when breaking the bead, or rip it off if you catch the bead on it while removing the tire
The tire were old and hard and lost traction especially on wet roads. See the winterization video. I don't like stick weighs because they tend to come off.
Hey thanks a lot, I sprayed the hub area with Kroil, I'll see if it really works as good as they claim!
Smart men use the proper equipment. :)
Thanks guys! Great video!
i had work practice couple years ago in some tireshop and we used there exactly same balancing machine. I never used anything like that and it was so easy to and very nice to use.
My first automotive job c. mid 70's was 'busting tires'... I still don't miss it. :)
Then (and I'm reasonably sure now), the blue spooge was a dried thick soapy solution, intended to protect sidewalls from scuffs.
Just use a nylon scrub brush while flushing with a garden hose... it'll come right off.
Better tire shops used to (and likely still) have a machine that spins, flushes & brushes mounted tires, making the process quick/neat.
Thank you, Eric and Scott.
It be cool to see how well balancing a tire at home with something like a bubble balancer does when checked and tested in this machine.. Like would doing it at home be close to or as precise as this machine!?
its also a good idea to figure out if there's tpms before you break the bead and if its the case break it 90 degrees from the valve! use lube too and mark your tires
Cool, thanks for the info. I'm from Wisconsin where Salt really takes a toll on rims if the clear coat gets nicked from wheel weights or curbs. I've encountered several wheels that lose air over time, but not be cause of a puncture. I was wondering if the wheels were just too far gone, corrosion developed since they were installed, or they were installed without cleaning the sealing surface. I'll make sure to take notes on what's done next time tires are installed. Thanks!
I just got a set of four Hercules, Tour 4.0 Plus. I was going to remove the yellow circle, I guess I should leave that on. There is also a red dot on 3 of the 4, what's that? And a white circle on three of the four with P5, P32, and P50 in it, what's that?
Nice. Sometimes collabs can be hit or miss... but this vid is the same great quality that all your vids have.
I have a new set of the tires installation and balanced on my 2006 Camry LE. I still have shaking steering wheel on 60-70 mph. what else I need to check? The car was having accent years ago.
Great work..guys I'm from Los Angeles CA & I've neva seen tht typE of work
Yep, in LA they still have stone tires....
As a tyre technician, nothing felt more satisfying than a perfectly balanced wheel.
Eric , if the valve steam is mount wrong (uncorrected) on the new tire and after ward starting loosing pressure ( externally) they also can cause the tire to blow up ?
very good and smart mr. but i relly wanna know about .
how we must know when we buy new tire right and left ? in side and aout sidt?
I hear you, but then again It's been a couple years that I've worked in tire shops. Back then we just had to be careful with the sensors and upon completion we had to reset the TPMS with a special scanner tool that hooked into the stem. It'd be nice to have the right equipment.
Eric, you mention a specific kind/brand of wheel weights that fit honda rims. What kind/brand would that be?
great video, guys! it really helped!
Video was great! Where's the best place to have tries put on and balanced?
Hey, learned alot. Thanks Eric and Scott
EricTheCarGuy Any advice on where to take my wheels to have them done? I'm new in town and don't know any shops/mechanics. I really dont want them to scratch up my brand new Wheel Vintiques Magnum 500s :s
I took the valve stem out before putting it on the machine. There was no air in the tire when the beed was broken.
When changing my breaks and rotors I had to cut through one of the rims to get the lugs off.
Now I have a spare on the vehicle to get around, the wheel with the bad run in the trunk, and 3 good wheels on, and I just bought 4 new rims.
My question is when taking this rim run in to be demounted/remounted if I take my other 3 in do I need to remove them from the vehicle or if I drive the vehicle in will it cost extra for them to remove from vehicle, remount, replace back on the vehicle?
Man, make sure you get a permit first from the local police, you don’t want that kind of trouble!
This is really helpfull to me...I am applying at tire places and had no idea how to do tires...just replace them on the vehicle...
Thanks Will, I've heard great things said about kroil, so I am trying it out, but I'll PB blast it too. The Kroil has been soaking for 2 days, and tomorrow is supposed to be 60 degrees in ohio, and that's just weird, I'm going to beat the rain and freeze off that's coming Sunday night. I'll get that wheel off one way or another. I have a gigantic slide hammer I'll try if whacking a sledge on the tire doesn't work. Welcome to my world where EVERYTHING is hard.
Thanks alot for your very good program it's really useful for me . I learned to much from your video
I Have had new tires mounted and Balanced and it's vibrating at a speed above 50Km/h. What is the process to resolve this issue? When the weight is inside the wheel (hidden) How is it removed without scratching the wheel? Thank you for this video.
That is a very advanced machine, i would like to have that model balancer machine and tire changer in my shop also.. any links on that machine @eric the car guy
It protects the white walls till after you do the install. Soapy water and a brush gets it off very easily.
great video eric very informative
You might have a fun time with that - I've had to drill and replace studs in a similar situation. Now I try to loosen and re-torque at least once a year and it seems to solve the problem. If it's stuck on the hub just loosen the lug nuts several turns and roll the vehicle back and forth a little. As long as the nuts come off you shouldn't have a problem separating the wheel from the hub. It's a bit of a pain though if you're already on stands though!
I think the paint mark is usually where the RFID chip is to identify the tire. I never heard of what you just said being the case... they Mark the optimum spot to mount the tire?
This video was awesome. Thanks
Hey dude, thanks for making this video, very informative and educational!
Good STUFF Car Guy !!!!
Thank you for showing this.
You would be the best instructor ever man.
2018 Silverado, new Michelin tires. Shop made 3 attempts to balance still very bad between 65 ~78 mph. Any idea what is wrong?
I always get my tyres from Costco in Leeds, UK. They use all the machinery shown here & always do a great job, plus they use Nitrogen. My previous car was a real pain for them; last time took them two hours per tyre to change and fit a new one on! This was due to the alloys I had at the time TSW Blade with 195/50/15 tyre size.
Nitrogen vs Air is a moot point because once you have left the tyre garage, you tend to fill up with air from there on. Does seem to drive better on Nitrogen though.
ERIC YOUR AMAZING BRO!!!!!
what about rubber that have multiple different color marks on the sidewall for balance. is there a standard? Yellow ...Red ? which to use?
Thank you so much ERIC. God bless
Yeah, just learn something interesting. Many thanks for making this video
I change my own tires at home using the harbor freight tire changer. It is a pain in the butt, but it works well enough. BEFORE, I used just bare screwdrivers! It is HELL doing this way, mostly when breaking the bead. But it worked also. BUT I'll NEVER go back to just bare screw drivers again LOL. Sadly, I can't work on allow wheels unless I don't care about scratching them
***** Autozone would not be able to help. I do also have a balancer. I have not got real into it. But it seems to work fine. But the weights for steel rims are hard to find.These tire tools cost only about $150 (both). You can get them on ebay as well
you guys are awesome, thanx!!
Is there a possibly you can tear the bead or the sidewall while trying to mount brand new tires?
i use sos pads to remove it, and also its great for cleaning the tires when they are dirty.... works great and it takes very little effort to clean and look nice.
Thanks! I needed this info.
Awesome .. I just bought a pickup and it shakes bad at 55.. so I went and checked,, tada'' missing weights on wheels.. thanks for the info.
I just got a new job mounting and balancing tires among other automotive jobs and while this video covers the PURE basics (Eric disclaimers this) there is really alot of things to know. TPMS changes the game and truck tires can kick your ass all day hah. still very informative though but i feel it could have been more in depth. ( I think its because eric was using the shops equipment). I want to see eric mount and balance no this guy whom seemed not to contribute much to the learning process.