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How Good Does The Toyo AT3 Balance Out

22 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Mike Melton (YouTube) demonstrates balancing and road-force testing of Toyo AT3 tires. He shows a roller that simulates vehicle load (stated as 1,200 pounds on the tire), removes the roller and reports a required balance weight of 2.5 ounces, and explains road-force guidance: aim below 18, 18–24 is acceptable, and above 24 will cause hopping/vibration.

Questions this video answers

1,200 pounds (stated as "1200 pound" on the tire).

Two and a half ounces (2.5 oz).

Prefer below 18; 18–24 is acceptable; over 24 is undesirable (will cause hopping/vibration).

How well do these toyo at 3s balance out? Now if you don't know anything about the Toyo brand, that is one of the top number one off road brands in the world, a lot of y' all gonna say, oh, well, you keep saying nitto. Listen guys, Nitto and Toyo are sister companies. They make the absolute best products. Now before we bounce this thing out, you got to take that damn sticker off. All right, we gonna cut it, we gonna edit nothing. So you're gonna see it rolling right there here. In a second, that roller's gonna come down. And if y' all don't know what that roller does, it puts 1200 pound top of that tire. So it simulates it being on the vehicle driven on the road. So it's going to detect any kind of vibrations they're going to be caused before it gets on that truck. Roller came off. Look at that. Only two and a half ounces. And that thing's got 12 pounds of force. So let's go ahead and go over, explain exactly what this road force number here is. So any you want it below that 18, but it could be in between 18 to 24. You don't want it over 24 because if it does mean that thing's going to be hopping like that. What's what causes when it happens like that, it's going to cause your steel wheel to shake your bed of your truck or whatever to shake. So you want this thing as low as possible.