Tire balancing
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Topic: Tire balancing
Posted By: geewizard
Subject: Tire balancing
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 2:29pm
Tire balancing was suggested to me by a close friend. His comment was that trailer tires are notorious for being unbalanced and vibrate a trailer excessively.
So....I took my RPod tires and wheels into the tire shop for balancing. They called me shortly after and said that the tires were so out-of-round that they were unable to spin balance them at all. I suggested they remount both tires and then try again. They did so and were able to get them somewhat balanced but not like a passenger tire at all.
Is it the cheap tires Forest River puts on the Rpods?
Anyone else have this issue?
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2021 Winnebago Micro Minnie 1708FB
2017 R-Pod 177 (Blue) HRE SOLD
2004 Outfitter Apex 8 camper
2014 Toyota Tundra DC
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Posted By: mcarter
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 4:02pm
Normal for manufacturers to buy in bulk and not balance, I also balanced my tires when I replaced with Ds. I posted a comment some months back about an observation I had with tires in general, that it took excessive weight to balance them and not centric to a manufacturer. Like the tire world went left somewhere.
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Mike Carter
2015 178
" I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability."
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Posted By: fwunder
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 4:28pm
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My original factory tires were so far out of balance they couldn't be corrected with weights and were wearing very unevenly. Had about 10,000 miles or so on them. I put a new pair of sneakers (Freestar) while in Florida about 18 months ago and had them balanced. Noticeable ride difference and after several thousand miles they are wearing evenly.
fred
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2008 4Runner Limited 4.0-liter V6
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Posted By: ParPod
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2017 at 8:09am
Tire balancing on the Pod.....thanks for this as I never gave it much of a thought even though I have the vehicle tires balanced. I'm looking at upgrading to a set of D's either this fall or next spring so I'll make sure they get balanced!
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Bob&Margaret
2017 179
2016 Toyota 4Runner
2 sets of Golf Clubs
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Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2017 at 10:55am
When we purchased our 177 back in 2011 the dealer strongly suggested we get the tires balanced which we did, I thought that was very good of the dealer to see that our ride would be safe. After 22,000 miles on that set, plus they were 6 years old, we replaced with another comparable set and had them balanced as well, 3K miles on this set, rides smooth as silk.
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God's pod
'11 model 177
'17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost
Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake
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