[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Jeff Alton

We do it every day here at the shop.....

Tire machine is a RAV from Italy, new balancer is Snap-On. NOT inexpensive equipment. The tire machine is basically touchless as we can't be damaging wheels on the types of cars we see. No steel wheeled minivans here.

I chuckle when people say "road force is the only way" . Our previous RAV balancer and our new Snap On one (John Bean) is deadly accurate. We had considered a Hunter Road Force at one point, but after rebalancing wheels that were at a shop/dealer with a Road force just a day or too prior, we decided to keep our current equipment.

In 15 years we have never had a comeback for a balance, never. On everything from a VW Golf to a Lambo/Mclaren/Ferrari/GT3 etc... High end machines can recommend a tire rotation on the wheel, that is what road force suggests as well. Hunter pioneered the Road Force as a marketing thing...

On a side note---- every once in a while, we balance a wheel/tire and it needs ZERO weight.... Yet is truly balanced.

Cheers

I suspect your techs are a little better than the average grease monkey at the tire store.