How to Balance Car Tires

Video Transcript

"Today, we're going to demonstrate how to properly balance a tire. As you notice, I have a tire here, and we're going to attempt to balance it. First step, we need to mount it to the machine. From here, we must set all the correct settings for this particular tire. I need to know the rim width. In this case, it's six inches, which I'm going to set on the machine. The backspacing is done by a tool on the backside of the machine, which is 6.6 inches, which will be set here. And we look at the size of the tire. This tire happens to be a 15-inch tire, which is already set. From here, we've determined that this tire is, in fact, at a balance. Now, we need to add weights. The question is: Which one? These are steel, these are all aluminum. This happens to be aluminum rim, so now I need to know...take the gauge and find out which weight will fit this rim. From here, you're going to install this on the rim, and it appears that the MC is the perfect fit, which is this yellow line right here."