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Where to do wheel balancing

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I just bought 165/80R15 tyres for my '63 today.But as far as I know you cant balance stock beetle wheels on a normal balancing machine. Does anyone know of a place where I can have the tyres fitted and balanced?

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AFAIK TWT can do it, but thats in Cape Town
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Kaptein wrote:I just bought 165/80R15 tyres for my '63 today.But as far as I know you cant balance stock beetle wheels on a normal balancing machine. Does anyone know of a place where I can have the tyres fitted and balanced?

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If you have a Wheel spacer, or even an old brake drum, with 5 wheel nuts, then they can fit it on the balancing machine.

With these options. most tyre shops will do it

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I found the best solution the hi speed balancing where they do the balancing on the car
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ever heard of Dyna beads?
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/index.php

dont ask if they work, never heard of anyone trying them
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I've read up on that, never heard of anybody local trying something like it, I saw on the interwebs beads up to the size of the plastic BB gun pellets being used, with success they say..
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Jee tgis is interesting. Do they bond to the tyre?
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Dazz wrote:Jee tgis is interesting. Do they bond to the tyre?
No, they supposedly move around to where they are needed and dynamically balance the tyre while driving..
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I had wide fives balanced by TWT in Woodmead recently; they still have the correct adaptors.
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fig wrote:I had wide fives balanced by TWT in Woodmead recently; they still have the correct adaptors.

Ok cool, thats the answer I was looking for.Ill first try the TWT's in my area otherwise ill go to woodmead branch.

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