 Earl Glanchop, former here at Township Chevrolet, gave everyone a quick rundown on balance and tires. It's that time of year. Everyone's coming in, getting their summers installed, their winter's taken off. And you're getting your tires maybe balanced and installed. Maybe you don't have the extra set of rims. It's kind of nice to know what we're doing out here. So, obviously the installation of the tires, you're putting the rubber part of the tire, the tire onto the wheel. Pretty straightforward there. We get equipment to do that, put the tire on. So once the tire is on, the next thing you have to do is make sure the tires is gonna run good down the road and not cause a vibration. And the reason why it would cause a vibration is because every rim and every tire has a heavy spot. If those two heavy spots happen to line up together, well, obviously you've got a really heavy spot there. And then as this is rotating down the road, you're gonna have that lifting up and down, which is gonna give that shake in the steering wheel. So there's no way for us to tell where the high spot is or the low spot is in the wheel or the tire, but they're putting it on a balancer. And then once it's on the balancer and we spin it up the first time, then we can correct it's basically what we're gonna do. So it'll just give you kind of a brief rundown of what we're doing. So I've already got a tire mounted up here. Tire's been installed on the rim. Now it's time to balance it. So the first thing I'm gonna have to do, I'm gonna flip these arms down and I'm gonna measure the rim. And that's gonna tell us tell the machine where we're putting the weights. There's a few different things we can do. We can either hammer on weights onto the lip of the rim on the inside and outside, or we can use a stick-on weight that goes on the inside of the rim, or we can use a combination of the two. So in this case, we're gonna put stick-on wheel weights, the customer would like them on there. We tend to do that as much as we can anyway. Helps save the coating on the wheels and keeps the clear coat from chipping or peeling away. So what we're gonna do here is the stick-on weights. So once I've got that entered in the machine, I'm gonna lower the hood here. And it's gonna spin the tire up and it's gonna measure the high spot and the low spot. And once it does, it's gonna come up here as a measurement announces on the machine. So it's a quarter ounce of weight, is what it's saying it's off. So I'm gonna go ahead and lift the hood up and on the inside of the tire, there's actually a line. There's a laser line inside of it that shows me where I'm gonna put the weight. So if you can see here, this is the left side of the wheel and this is the right side. So the right side measured okay. The left's got the quarter ounce weight. I'm going to press the brake on the machine. I'm gonna give the wheel a wipe where I'm sticking it to so it's got good adhesion there in the wheel. I'm gonna place the weight on. Give the good hard press there to make sure it's gonna stay on. We're gonna let the brake go, put the hood down again and it's gonna spin the wheel again this time to see if the wheel is in balance. You see it comes up okay. So now we know that that wheel is balanced and we're gonna go ahead and do that for each of the four wheels in the car. One thing it'll ask me on here, I already set this machine up to do this video for you guys but it'll ask me where we're putting it on the vehicle as well. So we'll select on where we're gonna put it. Once that's all done, all that's gonna do is make sure if basically what that did was it asked me for a quarter ounce of weight because exactly 180 degrees of the tire on the opposite side, it was a quarter of an ounce heavier on that side. Another thing this machine does too is what they call a road force. It's usually with the bigger wheels mostly involved with the trucks and what's going on is when you get 19, 20 inch wheels on trucks, very aggressive tread and they're eight ply, 10 ply, 12 ply tires. Obviously that heavy spot is gonna be a lot greater and you can actually get the tire physically. You can see the tire moving up and down. So what may be happened is the high spot in the rim and the high spot in the tire are also lined up the same way. So that's where this big drum will come down and it'll place itself on the tire and as the tire spins, it'll measure. It'll actually get us to chalk line the tire, take the tire off the rim and then rotate the tire on the rim to try to line up the low side of the tire with the high side of the rim and vice versa. So that when we put it back on the machine it's less of a variation in the tire. So that's one thing we do offer here too. So that's basically the gist of the balancing. Obviously I think we've talked before in some of these videos here, if you don't have your tires balanced you're gonna get a lot of uneven tire wear which will lead to noise and stuff. And I mean, once you've got the uneven tire wear you can balance your tires but it's not gonna get rid of that tire wear and unevenness it's already there. So just to let you guys know when you're sitting in the waiting area and you're waiting for us to install and balance your tires you know exactly what we're doing out here and it's been another episode of Tech Talk, Zero Blant and look forward to seeing yous.