Big Tires Need to be Balanced Too! Inside Look at Tire Balancing for your Lifted Jeep, Truck or 4x4! 

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What is the acceptable range on a G rated tire 235/80r16@@MountZionOffroad

In our experience balancing beads do not work. We will never utilize them or install them. We have a dedicated shop vac here just for sucking out balance beads from clients tires who are unhappy with the result. We have found no better way than a Road Force Balance on a good quality made tire.

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Our Hunter road force balancer hub spins at 300 RPM, so the actual speed in MPH would vary based on tire size but for a 35" tire, that's about 31 MPH

@@MountZionOffroad showing my ignorance here: would you not want to balance at highway speeds?

The important thing is that the tire is dynamically balanced. The Hunter machines are known to be the most precision equipment in the industry, and they are incredibly accurate and robust. If there's no need to spin the tire faster to get accurate results, then it doesn't make any sense to have the tire spinning at a risky 70 MPH in your shop. The same vibrations exist at 30 as at 70, they just become more pronounced as speed increases. The computers in the machine can detect these vibrations at 300 RPM and tell exactly what amount of weight it needs and exactly where to place it. To think tires were statically balanced using a floating disc and a spirit bubble for decades before this technology and that was "good enough" back then! Tire manufacturing has also come a long way since those days.