Well balanced tires are very important factor for comfortable ride and long lasting life of tires.
Non balanced tires are causing vibration that can bring to less secure ride, improper premature rubber wear, and unnecessary wear of shock absorbers and other parts of your car, and uncomfortable driving and driver fatigue. (It’s very important to note that Castellana Co. is the only company in Montenegro that is doing wheel alignement for trucks). First time when you mount tires in wheels you have to balance them or when you mount them again after repair. You have to check balancing of tires after first signs of vibration. Vibration can come due to improper vehicle centering or mechanical problems. Castellana Co. services of balancing is making in quick and professional way with the latest pneumatic technology. When we should balance tires in car? If everything is ideal, just once, when first time we mount on wheels. The first symptoms of unbalanced tires are vibration that you feel inside the car. “These vibrations are felt most at 50 to 60 km/h. When front tires are not balanced, vibrations are appearing in steering wheel, and when problem is on rear pneumatics, and then the driver feels tremors through the seat or the rear of the car.”- are saying in sector of pneumatic services in Castellana company. Tire balancing in quite simple operation. It is a process which is balanced mass of the wheels by adding lead weights on wheels. “Nowadays tire balancing is very facilitated by introducing the modern equipments. Computerized equipments which we belong allow us ideal and quick wheel balancing up to 26 inches”- say in Castellana. Rubber is balanced by the spin of the device, in which screen is shown where should be put weights in order to be put in ideal balance. There are weights for steel and aluminum wheel”. If balancing is not done in time tires wear faster and unequal, suffer bearings, shock absorbers and other suspension components. Shake of the steering wheel does not always mean that the tires need balancing only. “If you experience a so-called rocking in the steering wheel at speeds above 50 km/h or vibration in more than 90 km/h, possibly a tire or wheel is crooked and that can be resolved just by their replacement” say in Castellana. Tire balancing for passenger cars in Castellana is 2.5€, and for aluminum wheels is 3 € and 4x4 and vans is 4€. Lot of clients are saying that they have heard that when mounting there’s no need for tire balancing because it apparently takes time to lean on wheel. “We stick to the rules when mounting the tire to blow up to 4-5 bars and then to bring back to prescribed pressure. Tire then will immediately lean on the wheel, and is ready for balancing, so the client will not have to waste time and subsequently comes to balancing”- explain in Castellana.