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I would absolutely do it. How do you know they aren't selling you piece of crap out a balance tires if nobody throws them on the balancer? Why shake the **** out of your boat and trailer?

pachanga

LOL! Do you buy your trailer tires from him????

Rippem

easy guys...

Tom and I have been doing lots of good business for 25+ years
countless tires, wheels, performance parts, 5 pieces of Simplicity equipment, I store his toys, we used to do the Corvette thing (he still does has 2), and he's a Formula owner ...
this guy has saved me so much money and done me so right over the years, you wouldn't believe...even taking crazy care of my friends and women...

It's just this trailer tire balance thing is like an old wive's tale that he believes and I don't want to offend him, but I told him on the phone the other night I want them balanced and he balked at the idea...
during that same call he told me he has two more jet skis to store and a buddy who needs to store his CC...$$ for me.

I have collected 6 brand new, nubs and paint still on the face of the tread, 245/75-16E Bridgestone V-Steel RIB unused spares and take-offs from GM HD trucks. They will make an excellent trailer tire and I don't have $300 in them.

Going tomorrow at 7a to get them mounted and balanced.

Slick02

I own a tire store, and I balance mine, and all of the ones I do for customers.

Knot 4 Me

I've had Bearing Buddies repeatedly tossed off until I balanced the wheels/tires on a trailer. If they can vibrate bad enough to toss those off it cannot be good on the bearings.

Rippem

just got home mounted and balanced.

Those Star trailer wheels and the B'stones were both pretty true!
One took 2.25 oz. and no other took over 1.5 oz.

thanks for the input backing up my thinking on this.

mopower

Good decision. I always balance.

Jassman

did you notice a difference going down the road with them balanced. thanks Jeff

Rippem

hey Jeff,

sorry I can't give you that answer as these are new tires.

I think balancing can be nothing but a positive.
If not for tire life alone, my thinking is that even the smallest out-of-balance harmonic is "heard" right in the bearing sets...

all of my Kodiak parts and my BrakeRite SD just arrived! I got some work to do!

socalstone

I just flipped 5 tires from raised white letter to blackwalls on my jetboat trailer yesterday.

I had them balanced while I was at it. (they were not balanced before)
No I probably won't notice a difference, but I know it's right.

If your already there doing new tires, why not? cost is basically nothing. may be included with the mount.

Plus, like Rippem said if a tire/wheel is out of balance it may wear itself and the bearings to a premature death.