Wheel balancing

When is balancing necessary?

• After seasonal tire replacement.
• If a wheel hits a pothole, hits a curb, or hits a speed bump while driving very fast.
• If the car has traveled 15,000 km.
• If you often drive at high speed and are also used to braking sharply, then you should contact specialists after 7-8,000 km.
• If you feel that the steering wheel has started to shake.
• If the suspension is broken.

It doesn’t matter what brand of car you have or who the manufacturer is. Wheel balancing should be done every 10-15,000 km. But in some cases, when you feel discomfort due to the reasons described above, you should contact specialists.

You should always carefully monitor the condition of the car, as there are some problems that cannot be noticed immediately. To do this, you should more often diagnostics of the entire car. Most often, the service of correct wheel balancing is needed if you feel a beating or vibration in the steering wheel. Usually, rear wheel wobble is almost imperceptible, but all 4 wheels still need to be balanced.

Causes of wheel imbalance

• Tires are already worn out.
• Noticeable unevenness in the width of the sidewalls.
• Wheel rim is warped.
• Tires repaired unprofessionally.
• Defects in the finished wheel (hole in the rim, torn or strange, uneven pattern on the rim) tread).

Wheel imbalance

Dynamic imbalance – the wheel’s balance is disturbed in width, the tire sways from side to side. This problem occurs due to incorrect mass distribution in the horizontal plane. The axes of inertia and rotation intersect, instead of converging. This malfunction is often observed in wide-profile tires. And this is generally the most common type of imbalance, which is also called horizontal.

It becomes quite noticeable at a speed of 40 km/h or more. The car loses control, starts to sway from side to side, and the steering wheel feels shaking and vibrating.

Static imbalance – the center of gravity shifts in a vertical plane. In other words, the wheel starts to “bounce”, it sways up and down. This type of imbalance is also called vertical.
This imbalance is not difficult to recognize – the car starts to bounce at any speed, it becomes difficult to hold the steering wheel, the suspension deteriorates very quickly and becomes unusable.

Combined imbalance – static and dynamic imbalances most often occur simultaneously. This is the so-called combined imbalance. You can detect it by simply raising the car on a jack and spinning the wheel.

How do you balance car wheels in Kyiv?

It’s simple. At the VAG Master car service, specialists install special weights on the wheels. If it is a dynamic imbalance, they are fixed on the inner and outer sides of the wheel disk. If it is static, on the opposite side of the wheel.

Do you need to balance the rear wheels?

Usually, shaking or vibrations in the rear of the car are less noticeable. But this does not mean that you do not need to balance the rear wheels. If you neglect this, then get ready for the following unpleasant consequences:

• • the rubber gradually wears out, sags – because of this, it will be difficult to cope with the steering in the future
  • the suspension of all wheels can fail. Since the car is an integral mechanism, problems in one of its parts affect the other. For example, imbalance in the rear of the car can cause the same breakdown in the front

Thanks to timely appeal to specialists, you will be confident in your safety at any speed. There are no instructions that state that you need to balance the wheels. But future repairs due to this problem can cost much more. In addition, due to the fact that the car skids, both the driver and his passenger can suffersazhyri.

To get service from real professionals, we recommend contacting the VAG Master service center. You can contact us:

• • by phone
  • leave a request on the website
  • visit our car service

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