Where to get Tires balanced?
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When I brought this to their attention - they denied doing it - even though the broken piece hung by a thin piece of metal as obvious fresh damage. When I pointed this out - the manager broke off the piece and threw it away - and said "We didn't do it" and walked away. Their work and their ethics are sad.
I wouldn't go back to Radial Tire if they were the last tire place in the metro area. Avoid them like the plague.
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Radial tire mounted my rear tires to the front wheels, and fronts to the rear wheels. I discovered this before I drove away. They were VERY busy - and the guy rushed the swap - cracking a one inch piece on the edge of the aluminum wheel... which hung there.
When I brought this to their attention - they denied doing it - even though the broken piece hung by a thin piece of metal as obvious fresh damage. When I pointed this out - the manager broke off the piece and threw it away - and said "We didn't do it" and walked away. Their work and their ethics are sad.
I wouldn't go back to Radial Tire if they were the last tire place in the metro area. Avoid them like the plague.
When I brought this to their attention - they denied doing it - even though the broken piece hung by a thin piece of metal as obvious fresh damage. When I pointed this out - the manager broke off the piece and threw it away - and said "We didn't do it" and walked away. Their work and their ethics are sad.
I wouldn't go back to Radial Tire if they were the last tire place in the metro area. Avoid them like the plague.
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College Park, MD 20740-1351
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got my new wheels mounted and balance at machv motorsports for $80 loose. $120 if theyre still mounted on the car i believe.
they use the machines next door at designo motoring which do all the work for celebrity and athlete cars.
completely touchless. check it out
they use the machines next door at designo motoring which do all the work for celebrity and athlete cars.
completely touchless. check it out
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I have a Hunter GSP 9700 ... but I'm not on Tire Rack's list yet although a Tire Rack wholesaler..... working on that. For some reason they have some "shops" on there that don't have ANY tire equipment at all, but they are sticklers for things like Yellow Page listings and other seemingly nonsensical bits of data that are supposed to authenticate one's legitimacy... go figure??
We run into that kind of thing all the time.... these vendor "lists" can be the most misleading things, i.e. look up dealers on Renntech website (excellent Benz tuner), for Maryland there is one listed and it is somebody's basic neighborhood house.... and within that house no registered "business", no business license, no insurance, no lifts, no diagnostic equipment, just some wannabe who has a handful of hand tools and somehow scammed their way into getting the webmaster to "list" them; a real disservice to the consuming public, to real shops who carry the over-heads to provide real legitimate services and moreover the vendor co. cuz most people will see some bs that and loose all faith in the co.'s list and the co. itself.
Anyway, I digress.....Road Force - with force match (positioning tire in most suited place rotational-wise on rim) if needed - is only way to go on troubled vibrations.
The Road Force is the only machine that takes variance in sidewall flex around the tire's circumference into account & can make all the difference in the world. Sidewall flex is definitely not a constant factor around the circumference of a tire on even the best tires, and trying to balance the tire unloaded tells you zero about that variation. Go to the Hunter website if you want more of a PhD-level explanation.
We run into that kind of thing all the time.... these vendor "lists" can be the most misleading things, i.e. look up dealers on Renntech website (excellent Benz tuner), for Maryland there is one listed and it is somebody's basic neighborhood house.... and within that house no registered "business", no business license, no insurance, no lifts, no diagnostic equipment, just some wannabe who has a handful of hand tools and somehow scammed their way into getting the webmaster to "list" them; a real disservice to the consuming public, to real shops who carry the over-heads to provide real legitimate services and moreover the vendor co. cuz most people will see some bs that and loose all faith in the co.'s list and the co. itself.
Anyway, I digress.....Road Force - with force match (positioning tire in most suited place rotational-wise on rim) if needed - is only way to go on troubled vibrations.
The Road Force is the only machine that takes variance in sidewall flex around the tire's circumference into account & can make all the difference in the world. Sidewall flex is definitely not a constant factor around the circumference of a tire on even the best tires, and trying to balance the tire unloaded tells you zero about that variation. Go to the Hunter website if you want more of a PhD-level explanation.
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