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The tipping thread got me thinking about something I've been running into a lot lately. When buying new tires on my cars (my, DD, the Porsche, my wife's car) to get the tires to ride smoothly, as in no vibrations, no shaking steering wheel, I've had to pay extra for the "Road Force" balancing.

I had been using Discount Tires but I stopped going to them, using C & R now and they are better to work with but the problem remains. When I buy new tires I'm paying for "mounting and balancing", shouldn't I expect that charge to cover a smoothly riding car. If I don't have the Road Force performed, I get vibrations and always hear the same thing: "Well, to make it really smooth you need to pay extra". Didn't I just pay for that?

I've walked back with them to the balancing machine and they can make it zero out the less precise way and say that the majority of people are fine with that. It never seems to be enough on my (or my wife's) cars.

Am I alone in this? I've heard that BMWs (my daily) can be less tolerant of inexact balancing.