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Alie and Jims Carrilite


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Hopefully this post will help someone else.

We bought a set of Bridgestone Duravis 700 tires to go on the truck. They are a light truck tire with decent ratings, that a lot of delivery trucks use because of the mileage they achieve with them.

Anyway they were balanced the old fashion way, regular spin, then lead weights put in the approximate places. Problem is that with 4 tires on the rear, 1 slightly out of balance will still affect the ride and these dually's don't ride great to start with. So I had at least 1 if not 2 tires that were not correctly balanced. I rotated tires around, remounted them on different rims, had them Road Force Balanced, complained to the dealer, had 1 tire replaced, but still had a vibration from 40mph+ that at 70mph would make you think the truck was coming apart.

After talking to a bunch of people, several mentioned that they use "Balancing Beads" in their tires.  So a little research ensued.

Tire balancing beads go under various names, some are more like a powder, some are like metal BB’s, others are tiny steel balls, some are ceramic.  I choose the ceramic ones.

The brand I bought is Dyna Beads.  They use a ceramic bead that does not rust, is not abrasive to the inside of the tire, and is easy to DIY.

For the size tires I have, 265/70/17, they recommended 6oz per tire.  Installation is somewhat easy if you can change a tire on your truck.

Dyna Beads has been used by HDT’s, to motorcycles, with excellent results.

I now have NO lead wheel weights on any of the truck tires and the ride is smooth as the road allows.

Hope this helps solve someone elses tire issues



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Have used both in the past. I think they're great, but some don't like them. Don't really know why though, once the beads/powder is installed, you never have to balance those tires again. 

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Before using aftermarket material in or on your tires you should first check the warranty to insure the warranty is not invalidated by their use.

Here is a Bridgestone/Firestone warranty.

http://www.tirerack.com/images/pdf/warranty/BFS1211.pdf

Page 32, item 5 disallows the use of balancing materials.

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Alie and Jims Carrilite


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I do have an answer, but its a little on the smart side. 

If the manufacture and installer won't fix/exchange a set of tires that are out of round, then what are you to do?  Drop another $1500 on a set and hope their true?

They offered to shave the suspect tire (the one they didn't replace)  But then I would have 1 tire that has less tread than the rest. On a new set of tires. 

Instead of climbing the corporate ladder, I just did the beads and it worked.  If I have a catastrophic failure on a tire I'll deal with it then.

 

The smartazz answer is if they didn't shape their tires like a football there wouldn't be any problem.

 



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Just a note, with the beads, or the powder wheel balancing stuff, you must have a special Schrader valve insert installed in the existing valve stem. The beads and powder will unseat a normal Schrader valve insert as the tire rolls causing air pressure loss.

I've used the powder balancing stuff in the past and it worked very well.

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Correct, I bought an air valve that had a filter on the end for each tire.

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