Balancing your wheels and tires with Beads? WHAT?!?

[XraytecH]

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[CerOf]

This has been around for decades. The beads get spun around as the tire spins faster.

it’s a dynamic balancing solution. Works best if spinning fast!

your stick on weights are the same thing, except you spin the tire first and see where the weight needs to go. Hammer/stick it on, and off you go. BUT, as the tire wears, the balancing need changes.

 

[XraytecH]

This has been around for decades. The beads get spun around as the tire spins faster.

it’s a dynamic balancing solution. Works best if spinning fast!

your stick on weights are the same thing, except you spin the tire first and see where the weight needs to go. Hammer/stick it on, and off you go. BUT, as the tire wears, the balancing need changes.

Are these retrofittable? Do I have to unbead the tire to install these things?

 

[jurfie]

This is common for beadlock wheels.

 

[CerOf]

Are these retrofittable? Do I have to unbead the tire to install these things?

Some could be installed by pulling the valve core and pouring in. Others need to unmount.

 

[XraytecH]

Some could be installed by pulling the valve core and pouring in. Others need to unmount.

Something to consider as my 35s start to wear in.

 

[CerOf]

Something to consider as my 35s start to wear in.

I never ran them but friends have and said they only really worked at highway speeds.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Something to consider as my 35s start to wear in.

Maybe - but at least one forum member had the beads taken out and the tires balanced properly and his issues disappeared. So.......... it's not a perfect solution for everyone and like said, it's not going to help in every case. Unless you drive fast, beads don't do well.
I can run mine up to 90+ mph with zero vibration - conventional balancing.

 

[CerOf]

Here is one guys review:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ri...miracle-balancing-cure-or-tire-snake-oil/amp/

 

[immaechu]

DONT DO IT!

My friend balanced my wheels and tires for me using beads. It was a sh*t show after. I have 2.5" lift with 37s. And it drives fine until you hit 60mph. after that, the whole truck starts to shake. super scary!!! Not death wobble. But mid driving at 60+. Thought maybe they didn't put enough or something but turns out it just isn't working. I could only drive under 60mph for like a month. Couldn't take freeways. So lame!

I then took it to a Jeep shop, they vacuumed out all the beads and did the traditional wheel weight way and now its smooth like normal. lol

Beads are used for large tires like big rigs, where they travel 10s of thousands of miles per month. They're like 1oz or 2oz bags of beads. and you through in however much needed. When the tire isn't rolling then all the beads sit at the bottom. Once the tire starts to move is when the beads would stick to wherever the tire needs some extra weight.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Here is one guys review:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ri...miracle-balancing-cure-or-tire-snake-oil/amp/

EXACTLY. Few tires are only off in the perfect vertical plane. I should add - WHEELS, too. You aren't only balancing tires, you are also balancing wheels and since the mounting point of a wheel isn't necessarily in the exact center of the wheel (in to out) you can have screwy balancing needs there as well.
The heavy spot of a tire would need to be almost in the middle of the tread. That's seldom the case.
I've had situations with larger wheels and tires where as my luck would have it, the heavy spot of the tire was lined up with the heavy spot of the wheel and it made it tougher to balance. The shop broke the tire down and put the heavy spot of the tire opposite the heavy spot of the wheel and it took fewer weights to balance.

 

[LostWoods]

Don't do these on normal setups... they are for massive, meaty tires that are very difficult to balance so you can maintain moderate speeds (~55mph or so) without being vibrated to death. They are a bandaid for worst case scenarios, not a solution to truly balance wheels.

If you have normal wheels up to 40s or so, get your tires match-mounted and balanced with a roadforce machine... the match mount aligns high spot on the tire with the low spot on the wheel to minimize the weight and roadforce will give the best balance on the market. Yes, it's not cheap. Yes, it's worth every penny.

 

[Mr._Bill]

Look at Dynamic Balancing Plates. I had a set on my Silverado. The tires are mounted and balanced as normal. The plates sit between the hub and the wheel. They keep it smooth on the highway and help balance out changes in the tires as they wear.

 

[mx5red]

Look at Dynamic Balancing Plates. I had a set on my Silverado. The tires are mounted and balanced as normal. The plates sit between the hub and the wheel. They keep it smooth on the highway and help balance out changes in the tires as they wear.

Link?

 

[Riccochet]

I tried them in my JK. Drove about 10 miles, turned around and promptly had them removed.

If anything they made the entire situation 10x worse.

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