By properly balancing the wheels, your suspension will work properly and for a long time, so it is worth paying attention to balancing. Most motorists do balancing more often than once a year, namely at the time when they change summer tires to winter tires and vice versa, of course, do not forget about the quality of rubber and discs, which play an equally important role in traffic safety.
Balancing is the correct distribution of the mass of the wheel relative to its center, it is the correct balancing that will reduce all vibrations to the very minimum. Poor balancing can lead to some consequences:
• Incorrect balancing brings additional load on the suspension device, which ultimately can lead to faster wear of the bearing units, in the first place, of course, the hub bearings suffer, plus the threat of unpredictable structural failure and even the loss of a wheel during movement can develop.
• Wheel vibration can lead to worse traction and, in addition to more difficult handling, and longer braking distances, all of these factors increase the risk of driving.
• Poor wheel balancing leads to faster tire wear.
• Do balancing first if the steering wheel starts to "beat"!
What is wheel imbalance?
Unbalance is a different arrangement of the axes of rotation of the wheels and inertia. There is static and dynamic imbalance. Static imbalance appears when the axis of rotation of the wheel becomes parallel with the axis of inertia, which in turn leads to the center of gravity is located on the other axis, during torsion it is possible to notice how the wheel rotates in a pendulum type and for a very long time, usually leads to a stop …
Dynamic imbalance is when the center of gravity converges with the axis of rotation itself, which in turn leads to the fact that the axis of inertia does not converge with the axis of rotation, but even crosses it out at a special angle. Dynamic imbalance can be determined by simply spinning the wheel while the vehicle is in a raised state.
High-quality wheel balancing
1. If the wheel is dirty, first clean it and beat off pieces of dirt to balance the wheel without errors.
2. Before performing the balancing, investigate and identify the place where the wheels hit harder, that is, remember both the radial and lateral unbalance.
