Expanda Wheels not balanced??

[Ch00ka77]

Hey all as I have played around with my tyres the last few days I noticed all wheels are not balanced? As there is no weights on any of my tyres? Is every one missing wheel weights from there tyres? The mag wheel type. As it is near impossible to have a perfectly balanced wheel....

 

[cruza driver]

Yeah they dont balance them, I got mine balanced and found they were out too.

They got balanced when I flipped the tyres on the rims for white writing out :smile: but thats a whole new topic :music:

 

[Ch00ka77]

White writing out for me to.

 

[Sterlo1]

Just had our Sterling wheels balanced also. Two were a long way out. Jax balanced them and topped up the nitrogen @ $10 each.

 

[BUSH PALACE]

You old school guys with the white lettering out !!! only joking as im the same but as a rule in this industry trailer tyre/rims arent balanced unless you ask for it .. I always do mine though

 

[Ch00ka77]

I will be balancing ours next stop. If they are out of balance I dont think it would help the bearings to much.

 

[Bushman]

All 3 of my Jayco's over the years were unbalanced took my Panda to Jax the day after delivery to have it done, thats when we found out the spare doesn't come out without removing gas bottles, HHHHMMMMM still haven't done anything about that.

 

[ROnEM]

In prep for our two week trip over the school holidays, I have just had all 5 wheels balanced. Some were our quite a lot.

Made the appointment yesterday, pulled into the tyre place at the agreed time - 30 minutes later drove out with all tyres balanced for $37.50!

Also gave me a chance to check that the hubs were spinning freely. And I also know the wheel nuts are also nice and snug.

 

[Ch00ka77]

That's great I bet you are glad you had them checked... Good luck on your trip.

 

[Bank of Dad]

Thinking of getting ours done before we set off on a Melbourne - Brisbane trip.

I check the wheel nuts before each days travel. Book says to do them every 100k for the 1st 400k after taking the wheels off which is fine except the stupid hub covers that Jayco fitted need to be removed to allow a wheel brace on them. This means removing 3 piddly screws which when multiplied by 4 is a pain in the a#rse.

Can you run without the covers on? Are they just for looks or are they important? Anyone know?

 

[Ch00ka77]

I meet a bloke who leaves his caps off because of that reason.

 

[cruza driver]

Thinking of getting ours done before we set off on a Melbourne - Brisbane trip.

I check the wheel nuts before each days travel. Book says to do them every 100k for the 1st 400k after taking the wheels off which is fine except the stupid hub covers that Jayco fitted need to be removed to allow a wheel brace on them. This means removing 3 piddly screws which when multiplied by 4 is a pain in the a#rse.

Can you run without the covers on? Are they just for looks or are they important? Anyone know?

You can leave them off mate they are cosmetic only.

I have been thinking lately that on our next long distance trip to leave the caps off then it also makes it easier to check the wheel bearing temperatures when pulled over. Leaving them off may also let the bearings run cooler as the heat can escape.

 

[Bank of Dad]

Cheers CD.................I thought they were!

Off to the local Beaurepaires to become balanced. We have done about 4000 km in the last 10 months without balancing and we are about to do 4000 km in the next 2 weeks, so probably be worth the effort.

Reckon it might help with fuel economy?