How to Balance Your Car's Tires
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Tire balance. How to balance your car's tires by yourself, DIY with Scotty Kilmer. How to balance your own tires at home and save money. How to use tire balancer machine. Balancing tires on your car is not as hard as you might think. DIY car repair with Scotty Kilmer, an auto mechanic for the last 49 years.
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and the weights link?
HONESTO UNO lol I need a can too
2. "Common Sense" lol! 😅👍
You forgot a link for "common sense" Ive been looking all over and cant find where to buy that
Just clarifying for everybody, there is static and dynamic balancing. The method presented here takes care of the static balancing only, while the modern digital machines on your local shops takes care of both.
A static balancing may be enough for relatively narrow wheels, like the one showed here, designed for relatively low speeds (regular highway roads), but for wider wheels and (or) for higher speeds you should consider doing a dynamic balancing.
Other than that, great video as always!!!
That's why they have to put weights on both sides sometimes.
Dynamic balancing involves moving parts, moving in different planes.
Not necessarily. A bicycle crank arm (without the pedal) is a single solid object statically balanced but dynamically unbalanced. If you spin it really fast you can feel the bike shake.
Yuri Fiusa Yokota I worked at a gas station many years ago. I bubble balanced hundreds of tires. We balanced with two weights and put one on either side of the rim. We never had anyone come back complaining. This spin balancers ARE better, but only when you are balancing cheap tires and/or rims.
This here is correct.
You cant expect to get good results on any from of high end wheel with this.
I've never seen this "bubble balancer" thing, and there's a good reason for that.
I have one of these and it works great. Saves so much time vs spending a whole morning dealing with having a shop do it. I use it every time I rotate tires and I have 8 cars in my family. Also invest in an electric impact gun, makes removing and installing wheels a breeze.
All u need now is a tire changer lol
Being I'm 55, this used to be the ONLY way tires were balanced. To be honest I thought you were gonna use tire beads.
One IMPORTANT thing you left out (I spent 8 yrs in tire business) is show your subscribers how to make sure the bead was seated properly when the tires were mounted. There is a little line that should be uniformly like 2 centimeters from the rim all around the tire. If it is dipped in towards the rim without having the 2 centimeter clearance the bead is not seated correctly & you can balance ALL DAY LONG and still have the vibration.
One question. If the bubble is higher up from the wheel about a feet or so will it be more precise?
@@KindinEmil i should think so, but I'm not a doctor
And if you read this for information i will tell you something important.
If you experience shake when driving around 60mph but your tires are balance.
There could be fluid in one tire usually from flat fix on a can.
@@KindinEmil
Yes but it would turn into you cutting weights into tiny little pieces and saying oh this side needs 1/32 of an ounce and really at that point it wouldn’t make a noticeable difference. I guess the idea is it’s good enough
We used those in the Marines they work great.
Love your Ford repair videos, legit saved me money
since when do marines even care about comfortable tires
Clayton Bridges that's only for the hmmwv of the CO or XO.
did you balance on both sides or just one side? please explain as I just bought one of these, Many thanks
+sandydogy
You balance each changed tyre and only do so on the side which faces outwards (on most cars).
Scotty Kilmer: Official Spokesman of Harbor Freight Tools
na, I'm just cheap and often go there to save money or just gawk at all the tools, like a kid in a candy store
Well I trust your advice, so as much as you mention them, I'll have to check and see if there's a local one by me. Are they just in Texas by you, or would they have them up here in Indiana?
it's a national chain, I've seen em in niagara falls
HF can be a game of luck sometimes, but yeah, cheap tools are nice, especially if you have people in your house who occasionally get RID of your tools ... -_-
Scotty Kilmer So do I.
u are a god of saving money
So John ,why did you begin about the guy being a Trump voter ?!
John Docherty ur hilarious overthinking shit I live in Algeria lol
Mike B I didn't know they had internet in asylums. Just because someone is anti Trump doesn't make them pro Hillary... This is a fucking tire balancing video.
Anti-Trump people are a trip, with your "Safe spaces" and "Trigger warnings" and "protests"... Hope ya keep it up 'cuz all that BS is what got Trump elected! Oh, BTW, Suck it!
John Docherty: This remark is confusing. I didn't vote for that lying, slimy, scheming $cumbag of a used-car salesman, but I still like saving a few bucks whenever I can. Do you imagine there is a correlation between frugality and being an idiot (ie, thinking Trump is anything but a buffoon)?
Brings back memories but there are good reasons why dynamic balancers have replaced static units. It's not just about equipment cost. The problem has to do with resolving the forces that induce "wobble" when the tire+rim mass is actually rotating. I guess static balancing can be adequate in many cases, at least from a driver/occupant ride comfort point of view.
Scotty, I saw this video today and ran down to Harbor Freight to get the same brand of bubble balance. Inflation made my price today $82 after the Grand Opening discount of -10% had been applied. I already do my own oil change and tire rotation. I had my little car out for a cross country drive yesterday and discovered the need for balancing as it also crossed the mile threshold for an oil change due. Now I can balance the tires while I've got them off the car.
I have one of these bubble balancers and I find that it can get you pretty close, but you can never get perfect balance with it. It gets to a point where it looks perfectly balanced, but then you wobble the wheel around and wait for it to stop and the bubble won't be in the center anymore. Every time you wobble it you get a slightly different reading from the bubble, making it really difficult to get perfect balance.
Didn't know this existed for us DIY'ers. Thanks for saving me some more money, Scotty!
I decided to balance my own tires instead of letting a tire shop do it. The price of this tool is $70 and the price of the wrights (only sold by the box) at a parts store was $50. My buddy got 2 of his tires balance at $8 each lol. Will definitely save money in the long run, the box of weights will for sure last me a life time because you don't balance tires often or use too many weights to do it.
I always wondered if you could balance your own tires. lol. thanks for in knowledge Scotty
Excellent video. This Is static balancing. By the way dynamic balances are not required at all for the car tyres due to the rough pathways and roads. Static balance even works better.
Please keep on educating us.
when i read scotty's replies to these comments below, for no apparent reason i do the scotty kilmer voice and accent in my head lmao
I don't notice any accent.
@John - That's because he doesn't have an accent.
lmao yup me too
Browningate yoo don nowtiss the acksent?
@@genericusername1365 Oh he definetly has an accent.
You forgot to mention to carry a couple magnets with ya just in case someone steals your parking spot haha
You're killing it Scotty. explosion of thumbs up. Cut and dry with extra information. Global awards to you my friend. Hung with you back in the late 70's. Cheers mate. Helpful to me.
I don't think other mechanics like you to much BUT! we the drivers really love your videos after 4 years of watching your videos after i found out a mechanic was trying to rip me off and been a machinist my self i have been done most of my car repairs my self and i have save my self a few thousand dollars so for than all i can say is THANK YOU! THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I'm a mechanic and I like Scotty just fine. I have never used a bubble balancer in my career as an automotive technician because I've always had access to a computer balancer. Being that I've got out of automotive and went to work on turf and ag equipment, I still hate the idea of paying a shop to do my tires so I will be buying tools to do them myself at home. Over the years I have had to fix other shops' mistakes and have seen how the customers have got screwed. This is why I don't trust a shop to do work on my stuff.
scotty just answered my prayer on a non-expensive, bubble-wheel balance, tool ! thanks, Scotty!
Scotty is right - most of time you don't need dynamic balancing. Some times you don't even need any balancing - since tires are made by high quality process and should be uniformly distributed in weight (and so is the rim). Just mount the tire, put wheel on and go for a test drive at highway speed. - if no hop or shake, you are good without balancing!
WOW, you really made my day. That was the great mystery behind balancing the wheels. I went back to the Discount Tire place twice. Mow I know I didn’t have to buy the other two tires. Thank you
Men, where would we be without Scotty Kilmer’s videos? I can’t even estimate how many of his videos I’ve watched to solve a problems because I’m too cheap and stubborn to take my vehicle to a auto shop. In all seriousness I should probably mail a check to Scotty for all of the money that he has saved me.....
with the dynamic road pressure balancing machines, I just bought a new set of tires at tire rack, they mounted and balanced them for $15 a pop, i drive 100 miles for their services, great people. as long as i live in IL, i'll go to South Bend, IN and tire rack for my tires.
I work in a tire shop and if someone came in with super glued wheel waits I'd laugh in there face and tell em to keep walking lmao
Why? It looks simple.
I laugh when people tell me they work in a tire shop 😂
Wow that's a lot easier than I thought it would be! Thanks for the video Scotty, you're the best.
Scotty Kilmer = your honest-to-goodness repairman.
Tire technician here, these old bubble balancers are awesome.. I actually favor old school tools over the large machines in the shop, for my mobile business I use a regular 4x4 tire iron, have a low profile floor and scissor jack, and one of these and some tire spoons. I do it all old school much simpler
I lucked out when putting new tires on my '85 Chevy G20 van the other day, tried it up to 60 with no balance issues, not a single weight on any of the wheels! My friend claims i exploded the tires into balance when i seated them using the old starter fluid trick, hehe!
I might be making a trip to Harbor Freight. 😉😉
bryan woo: Who needs a level? Just keep moving the weights around until they stop shaking.
Maxx you wouldn't know how much weight to use. Also you could make the vibration worse.
Edit: It would be like painting in the dark. Lol
What about dynamic balancing?
The tire shop I work at offers free tire balancing, rotations, and flat repairs provided you bought tires from them at some point in time. really good deal
I have that exact same machine...been mounting-balancing my own tires for 7 years now...i paid $40. for my balancer.
How so??
Very informative video Scotty, however, even if you buy the bubble balance tool, you would have to also invest in different weights, to properly balance the wheel. I am sure the weights don't cost that much, but it would have been a good idea to mention that.
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You sir are one of my favorite little parts of the internet.
Lmao. So you spent $70 to get wheels balanced, then bought a balancer for $70, then unbalanced the balanced wheel to rebalance the wheel exactly how it was already balanced. Well I’m sold.
lol - love your videos!
i've gotten tires installed and balanced at a walmart tire center for 38 dollars. just take the wheels off and then take them there so they dont charge to you take them off and put them back on
REV UP YER ENGINES
I only own one engine though
Rev it at least twice.
Thats. The. Joke. You silly sausage
No
We used to clamp on one weight outside and another equal weight on the inside when necessary. Bubble balance works great, never had a comeback with this method. 1970s.
I’ve bubble balanced tires for 50 years. I was taught to use 4 weights, 2 on each side of the wheel and equal distances from the light spot of the tire. Always worked fine at all speeds.
That's the system I learned when I worked in a gas station garage in 1969. The VWs and Volvos we drive do just fine with static balancing. I've built up quite a collection of clip on lead weights over the years.
My first job in my dads Goodyear store, that is what we used for thousands of tires. They are pretty darn accurate.
I have never seen that kind of tool before.
Take a look in the mirror then
lol
Mr.Haaska Thats what she said :)
She was lying
Bubble balancing is good, if you keep to slower speeds. But, for higher speeds, like 70+ dynamic balancing is a must!
There are two types of wheel balance, Tramp (Bounce) and Wobble (Shimmy).
Bubble balance takes care of tramp balance but does nothing for wobble.
Dynamic balancing takes care of both problems.
This guy is a real hero
there aren't many people as honest as Scotty in this world
Don't be stupid. He rips people off just as much as any repair shop does
I must agree with the comment from Yuri Fiusa Yokota, regarding static balancing. I'm too picky about vibrations. I traded out a 2009 Honda Accord a couple years ago because with two new sets of tires it still had a vibration the dealer couldn't find.
good ol Scotty K ... still kicking around - I remember when he was on TV when i was a kid
How a veteran car mechanic like Scotty, with more than 40 years experience, would agree to pay $70 for re-balancing 2 wheels is beyond me.
And this device sounds like a good idea, except that it doesn't take care of the dynamic balancing part. This was maybe good for a Model-T, but with modern cars that can go much faster, and wheels that can go 1000 RPM at highway speeds, you need dynamic balancing.
Seemed expensive to me too.
this...this
You missed the point where it was his wife's car. You don't mess with wife when she asks to have something fixed. right away.
He now has the tool for balancing tires in the future ... it reduces the costs in the long run!
Lol you might even made some side cash doing your neighbors cars 😂 ❤️ Scotty
This is a great tool but its also a great idea to get lifetime warranty tire balance from a place like firestone. If you are planning on keeping your car years and years this will pay for itself after a few balances. Also, you can do the same for alignments and tire rotations.
Yeah but it’s about avoiding the wait and the hassle and making appointments etc. I’d love to do my own. Might get one.
Scotty you are right on the mark, been doing this for years
Every morning my tyres squeal real good for Scotty.
OMG you have given me bad thoughts ...
"Scotty, you make my motor purr!"
"Scotty, my tyres squeal for you!"
"Scotty, I think my tail pipe is a little clogged..."
... kms XD
That's because he mounts them.
You paid 70$ for wheel balance they ripped you off
faizan joyia it wasn't 70 bucks to balance the wheels, it was 70 bucks to find the source of the shaking and fix it. probably 70/hr with a 1 hour minimum for general labour.
if we consider on the quote from A D guy who posted that it's 8 bucks a tire for a balance, imagine how many times you have to balance your tires in your lifetime.. 70 bucks for a lifetime is much cheaper than 32 bucks over and over again when you replace your tires.
But let's say you drive your car for the rest of your life which is highly unlikely but let's roll with it.. You change your tires every 10 years at full maximum if your car is constantly driven on silky smooth paved roads without anything that could damage your tires and you have your car under the shade so the sun won't damage your tires, you'd be paying over 70 bucks in 30 years.
But since you just leave your car out to the elements and actually use your tires then i would dare to say that they won't last 10 years and realistically you'd be replacing your tires every 5 years at maximum.. So you'd actually be going over 70 bucks in 15 years realistically.
But since weighs have a tendency to fall off while driving, you'd be using this tool more often..
And you could balance car tires for your neighbors for a small fee of 10 bucks and get your money back after 7 balances.
faizan joyia I paid $65 bucks for replacing 4 tires and balancing! and I left the old tires there too at no extra cost
V4 Garage:
1: that's not what he ment.
2: thats some very poor math.
3: wheel weights dont fall of if you do it right. ever.
4: most importantly: the tool does'nt actually work, and you'll have to redo it at a shop anyway. (see posts above about dynamic balancing)
Jose Ramirez - $65 bucks for 4 tires and balancing? That's total bullshit.
The country garage uses one very accurate. Never had and tire balance issue.
Haven't seen one of those since my grandfather used it almost 40 years ago. Memories.
SCOTTY YOU'RE THE GREATEST!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These work great and balanced millions of tires, and continue to balance thousands of tires every day in poorer countries. I don't know why people went to the dynamic digital ones. I don't know what the advantages are to justify the $1400+
wilson solt Yeah, that's so expensive for a machine that will pay itself off in mere months. Balancing things as good as they can be so they don't fall off is just stupid in a country where there are tens of millions of cars on the highways doing 55-75+ mph.
static is good to about 65 mph on a small tire
Do people in third world countries run comically oversized rims like we do in the US?
I'm sure some do. Third world counties wouldn't be that way unless there are rich cunts
Tim Ramich
The cost is high for those machines due to the fact that they aren't commonly made. (Like, they're made in the thousands, but not millions like iPhones!)
OMG this could save my sanity. I have custom Dually Wheels. I can't find a tire shop that the outer rear wheels will fit on their balancer machine. This is too good to be true. I will research this some more. Thanks for your wisdom and skills. 😊
I don't care much about balancing a tire. But I like this guy's energy.
Wow, its Two in One. It Balances your tires and bank account
I'd just tell them to fix it or they can have their tires back!
My first job was at the corner gas station and car repair. We had a old air powered tire changer ( it wasn't old at the time ) and a bubble balancer. . I would break down mount and balance tires for hours during the weekend. This was before the big discount tire stores
Right on Scotty ... You are a man with a whole lot of common sense .. which isn't so common at all .. Thank You for all of your very helpfull videos Scotty ...
Does it matter where (inside of the rim or outside) you place the weight?
no, as long as the balance bubble is in the middle.
It does matter where you put the weights, put half on the inside and half on the outside if using hammer on weights, or put them in the middle of the wheel rim if using stick on weights. If you don't do this, you will introduce a dynamic imbalance.
Tim Haynes Doubt you will get far with the argument here.
Nice! I am going to buy one, put it in my garage, then never use it :) - or only use it once :D
It may be worth looking into high schools in your area, see if they have a mechanics program. Usually dirt cheap and a good job, plus you're helping to teach some lads stuff like this.
Wow, over 1,000 comments - all positive??
I bought one of these and have regretted it!! Perhaps it's just the one I got but... It's poorly made, gives inconsistent results and I was not able to get the wheels balanced using it. Like you say, vibration starting around 65mph, feeling unsafe at speeds not much higher than that.
Ended up making my own vertical balancer (tricky), learned how to put weights on near the CG of the wheel (or split them inside & outside) to avoid dynamic imbalance and got near perfect results. Smooth up to any speed I want to drive.
$70 to balance tires? It's $4 per tire where I live.
Whaaat?
Small town in West Virginia.
Where in West VA? Around here (Baltimore) tire balancing is expensive.
Eastern Panhandle of WV. I've had my tires balanced in Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton county and they've always been $5-7 a tire.
Yeah, but diagnosing the problem probably cost >$50
Winrun tires? I found your problem.
Brandon Wright Scotty has talked about not buying cheap tyres before.... He didn't learn his lesson.
Winrun? Sounds like Chinese stuff. Like "Goodluckbuy" or "Banggood" XD
If they are on the rear and the car is only used every so often they are fine
Definitely didn’t get those from Discount Tire
I love this guys energy
Great advice for the steel wheel and or commuter car. larger high performance find a shop with lifetime balance.
Well Discount would've re balanced them for free if you told them it wasn't right, but i guess you felt the need to pay 70 bucks for a different shop to balance them. lmao!
i once took my car back to a tire shop 3 times, to fix the shaking issue at highway speeds, they didn't do it right all 3 times.
took it to my dealer, they charged be 45$ and re-balanced the wheels...
Well i was talking about Discount Tire. lol Other Tire shops, well who knows what happens with them.
aint that the truth, tire shops don't pay their workers much these days
Very nice job and finished product.
MazdaBass971, Well you have to understand one thing, Scotty's wife probably didn't want him to go back to the same shop and waste time with a shop that didn't do it right the first time...
Scotty, take your youtube earnings and invest in some hearing aids. No reason to scream at everyone all the time! 😆
Texas is Uuuge. That's how communicate from the hills to the beaches
That's what makes him... Him! Let him be lol
@MrBrucelee117 bruh, the emoji indicates his comment was made in good humor
@MrBrucelee117 Then I guess Bobcat in Police Academy isn't screaming either according to you. Maybe you are the one who needs hearing aids since you think both those guys talk normal lol
This guy is something else.
Thanks Scotty, I just ordered one.
You keep buying all these tools - How do you find them when you need them?
I found that on ebay. Nice price to.
I found that on ebay. Nice price to.
Continental tyres: "tyres cannot be balanced in a home garage"
Scotty: here's how to do it with a
That’s awesome!! I had no idea that little tire balance tool even existed. Thanks!
Every video is short, sweet, and informative! Great work Scotty
The last time I was this early it was eons ago and dinosaurs still roamed the earth
lol don't ever super glue weight on your wheels
Your personality is just the absolute best. You rule.
I have seen a machine in a tire shop that is more or less like that, but you need to center a light that is proyected in a rectangular grid. Is not even even electronic nor digital, more like some type of "scale". Now I realize that they were using something like this. I mean, same principle ... but build pretty solid as a proper shop machine. It was a rare machine because the most common one were the ones that make the wheel turn to figure out the balance. Ones did with the wheel installed on the car and other need the wheel be taken out. The ones that do the job with wheel installed are better IMHO since tend to balance the whole thing, included imperfections on the hub, discs or drumbs. But tire shops stopped using these long ago.
WHY ARE YOU YELLING!!!!?
Why are you?
That's scotty 😅
Hey Scotty!!When will u get ur new teeth???
two weeks, it's being made from last friday
I was hoping that you are going to do it by yourself and will show us your perfectly homemade teeth :D
What's wrong with the old ones?
Old ones are unbalanced!
LOL! Very good.
Does this Harbor Freight balancer really work? I saw reviews on that balancer and some say it doesn't work. Anyone else own one of these?? Thank you Scotty for making this video!👍
You've saved me so much money from your instructive videos. Thanks and God bless.
This guy is a life saver going to buy mine
Scotty always taking care of us
I've had the same one for years. go to your local too off tire store and they'll give you their old scrap weights. different allot wheels use different hooks, a pain. apply half the weight required to the inside of the rim. recheck balance, apply remaining weights. I bent up my own needle nose pliers with an oxy acetylene torch to remove the weight, it's needs to be hooked with a special tool otherwise to remove the old weight
You are a mechanical savior scotty! Thank you!
Very good idea. I never seen a device like this.
Hallo,
I'm from Germany and here the wheels of cars are balances dynamic, because with this method the weights are put to the inner and outer side of the rim. Static balancing is O.K. on narrow tires (for example small cars or motorbike tires), unfortunately today's cars often have wide tires and on German Autobahn there's no speed limit, so you can drive 200 km/h or more sometimes, and then you need well balanced wheels.
I own a used electronic wheel balancer (for dynamic balancing) together with a friend, and I can say with fresh balanced wheels your steering wheel doesn't make any motion and drive perfect.
I love his enthusiasm
Glad your channel came up as a recommendation to watch always great information 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I put a few handfuls of silica sand in each tire when I mount them and it keeps them balanced for the life of the tire, I have done this for many years and never had one problem.
Scotty is the best.
I have an old Snap on static wheel balancer model WBK 2C I bought for $20.00 at a yard sale that works perfect every time I rotate or get new tires. Unlike the new dynamic balance machines with complex electronics that fail and need calibration gravity is constant and never needs adjusting. I can't believe how bad the installers are at balancing new tires as I always check them and now have a box full of new wheel weights after re balancing them on my static balancer and yes they run very smooth on the highway after I re balance them unlike the shake and shudder the installers leave me with after their attempt . I also balance my motorcycle tires and brake rotors drums etc. Amazing thing.. ("GRAVITY").
Where do I buy tire weights?
Any tire installer will give you some used ones free and contrary to popular belief you can re use them many times until they get too rusty. You can also buy the peel and stick weights form most auto supply shops.
I'm too young to know those bubble balancers even existed. Never heard anyone talk of them in the field either, that is neat cool vid Scotty.
I myself have made several trips to discounttire because their balancing machine was not calibrated correctly! This tool is awesome indeed