Mike Melton finds a truck with dangerously misbalanced wheels: weights stacked wrong, placed in bad spots, causing high road-force readings that wreck tires and handling. Two wheels are especially bad. He explains why proper balancing matters and pitches training for shops that don't know what they're doing.
This truck came in for wheel balance. Now he's got on there the Toyo Open Country MTs. Now if you look in there, somebody just balanced this not too long ago. But we can take this off, I'm gonna show you what the hell they did. All right, here's one of the wheels. You got that, you got that right there, then you got that right there. What in the hell are they doing? This, this ain't even the worst one. All right, here's another one. Look at that, one place there, one place there, one place there. All right, here's another one. They got some there, they got some there, and they got a lot here. What in the hell? He just told me he's got 42,000 miles on these tires. Look, he's still got a lot of tread left. All right, here's the last one. Look at this right here. Wait there, wait there. Look at that, they just stacked the hell up in here. All right, why are you sitting there getting all the old tape off? Look, look at the damn— look at the damn pile of weights that came off of this one wheel. So two of these had high road force. We're gonna fix that for them. Now did you see how much weight and how they place the weights on these wheels? Listen, y'all have got to watch where you go. And if you have a shop and you aren't training your guys, that's a major problem. Now I can train your people for you. Send them to my store or pay me to come to your store. We'll do it.
