If you are feeling vibration in the steering wheel or seats at highway speeds, chances are your wheels and tires need balancing. Traditional “spin balancing” won’t always solve a vibration problem in today’s high performance cars. Butler Tire offers Hi-Speed On-The-Car Wheel Balancing to help solve vibration problems at higher speeds. The difference between a traditional spin balance and our on-the-car balance is often dramatic. Here’s why:

Most tire stores only “spin balance” the tire and wheel off the car. This process will balance a wheel and tire assembly at 45 to 50 miles per hour. This standard type of balancing can work wonders at lower speeds, but to really eliminate high speed vibration, wheels must be balanced much more accurately, and at a higher rate of speed. Here is what our on-the-car balancing process consists of:

1. Remove the wheel and tire assembly from the car, and dynamically balance it using a Hunter GSP9700, or Roadforce Variation Machine
2. If applicable, index, or turn, the tire on the wheel to ensure the assembly is round when rolling
3. Apply the necessary weight to perfectly balance the wheel and tire assembly
4. Install the balanced wheel and tire assembly on the car using hand tools (no air-guns here)
5. Hand torque lugs or bolts to manufacturer specifications
6. Using our Hofmann finish-balancing machine to spin the non-drive wheels (i.e. front wheels on a rear-wheel drive car), and the motor of the car to spin the drive wheels, we run the wheel and tire assembly up to 120 miles per hour!
7. Minute measurements and adjustments are made to the balancing weights to ensure that the wheel and tire is perfectly matched to the hub of the car at all speeds

At Butler Tire, we don’t recommend you driving 120 miles per hour; however, our unique balancing process will ensure that vibration is no longer a problem if you decide to do so! At Butler Tire, Hi-Speed On-The-Car Wheel Balancing offers a smooth, vibration-free ride and saves you money by extending the life of your tires.