Mike Melton tests Atturo TrailBlade M/T tires on a Road Force machine and finds they're a balancing nightmare. The results: 67 lb road force and 7 oz and 4 oz imbalance values, which he calls excessive. His shop won't stock them because of this unpredictable variability.
All right, man. How good do these atturo trailblade mts balance out? Now, before we go over that, let's go over the tire a little bit. Now, this tire is designed sort of like a toyo mt, the way the trail pattern is. But if you look, these are a little different. Shoulders are a little different. Now, the sidewall is pretty aggressive. I like it. Looks pretty good. Now, sometimes these things balance out well, sometimes they don't. They're hit or miss. So this customer here, I actually brought these tires in himself. We didn't sell them these. So let's see how good these things are balanced out. All right, right now, we got this thing rode LT set up road force. We got all the weights off, ready to go. So now, before we balance it out, what we got to do, we got to take that damn sticker off, son. Right now we go cut it. We're gonna edit pull this down. We got to roll them. Roller's about to come down. Like I said, sometimes they bounce that well, sometimes they don't. We're gonna see how the road force comes out and how much weight this thing's going to take. So rollers down. If you're not sure what this does puts 20, 1200 pounds of force from the tire, assimilating it being ridden on the road. Rollers coming off. Now it's got 67 pounds of force. It's still too high even if you try to fix it. 7 ounces and 4 ounces. That is a lot of weight. That's why we don't carry them. Sometimes you have issues, Sometimes you don't.
