Tire Balance Beads... Anyone Tried Them?

[digitalboi]

In my search for a road force balance shop I stumbled across Tire Balance Beads... The concept seems sound and I would love to give them a try. Does anyone have any experience with them in their MS yet?

 

[bishoppeak]

Innovative Balancing says “the answer is that the majority of today’s passenger cars use a totally different tire style than what was the norm 15 years ago. Today’s tires are wider, flatter and closer to the rim (lower aspect ration) than older tire styles. This newer style brings a different type of balancing problem to the dealer, that being lateral imbalance.

Also, if you have low-profile tires, that being any tire with an aspect ratio 65 or below, you may have balancing issues that precludes using Dyna Beads as the sole balancing method.

Officially, Innovative Balancing doesn’t advise using Dyna Beads in any tire with an aspect ratio 65 or below unless used in conjunction with weights.

The reason for this is that this tire has a higher incidence of lateral imbalance, which is basically that one side of the tire is heavier than the other side, creating a “wobbling” effect, or “shaking” of the steering wheel. This type of imbalance normally can only be corrected by careful placement of traditional weights on the wheel rim.”

 

[Drewflux]

One thing to keep in mind, truck and RV tyres fitted on split rims do not get balanced at time of installation. Im rather skeptical adding 10 grams/ .35oz of beads to a passenger tyre, normally dynamically balanced to within 5grams /.17oz will have any noticeable effect.