Balancing beads vs. wheel weights

JC-Nismo

Road Force is the only way to go on modded cars in my opinion and have them show you the balance report. I had this problem with a set of new tires that wouldn't balance and they ended up being "out of round" showing 60% negative and drove like bricks that I had to return due to defects. Spent $1300 on a new set of Vred's and it drove as smooth as sliding on ice.

nis350

I agree that road force balance is a much better way to go with large wheels/tires. However, a good machine should work well in most cases and would detect any anomalies in either the wheels or tires.

I've heard that some of those low price wheels and tires may not balance well even when new. I guess you get what you pay for.

Kraken370

I'm having the same problem with my new varstoen es2 wheels. Mine are 19x9.5 22 offset front and 19x10.5 12 offset rear. The tires are hankook evo2 255 front 295 rear. I balanced my wheels 3 times at 2 different locations and i still get terrible vibration. I also put on the rings and did an alignment. Not sure what i should do next?

nis350

vibration is a common annoyance with (larger size) after market wheels, especially with lowered cars.

were there other changes to the car other than the wheels? are the wheels and tires new?