Rotating and Balancing Your Tires: 4 Tips
Have you ever noticed that the shoes you wear have a distinct wear pattern? Well, tires are like that. You can’t rotate your shoes around for a more even wear, but you can rotate and balance your tires, and for the same reason, longer wear!
A set of tires is one of the most expensive replacements on your vehicle. That’s why you want to get as much use out of them as possible.
Rotating and balancing your tires are two different procedures. Both increase the safety and efficiency of your tires. For tire rotation, the wheels are removed and replaced front to back, right to left.
Balancing requires a special machine to check the tire’s weight and the wheel’s balance. If the tire isn’t balanced, our certified Chevy technicians will attach small weights to the rim of the wheel. This ensures that they are balanced.
How Often Should You Rotate and Balance Your Tires?
Most tire manufacturers recommend rotating and balancing tires every 7,000 miles. Or check your owner’s manual. A great way to keep up with this is to keep a maintenance log in your glove box. Every time you get your oil changed, record the number of miles.
Over time, you’ll see that you’ll need to have your tires rotated and balanced every other oil change.
The Big Reason to Rotate and Balance Your Tires Regularly
Tread wears more quickly on your front tires than on the rear tires. With the loss of tread, it makes it easier to lose control of your vehicle. When you rotate tires regularly, front tires retain more tread, and tires last longer!
A regular maintenance practice keeps your car safer on the road, but it also is cost-saving. If you didn’t rotate your tires regularly, they would wear out more quickly.
Regular tire rotation and balancing helps ensure even wear, replacing a set of four at one time instead of having to purchase two more tires later.
What Causes Tires to Become Out of Balance?
There are many ways reasons tires can become unbalanced. Here are three of the most common:
• Hard skidding in a panic braking situation causing a tire to flat spot. If this happens, the tire is no longer round which adds vibration while driving.
• A bent rim. Also, the loss of a counterweight.
• Aggressive acceleration or braking. This can result in a tire-to-rim slippage causing an imbalance.
And while a vibration is a dead giveaway that you have a tire imbalance, many times, your tires can be out of balance, and you don’t know it!
That’s why regular checks are so important.
Can You Avoid Tire Imbalance Right from the Start?
Yes! Buy quality tires, ones with sound uniformity which means how round and even they are. Combine a quality tire with a good balancing job, and you’ll benefit from even weight distribution, and that means optimal wear right from the start!
When you’re ready to buy a new Chevrolet car, truck, or SUV, or one of our quality preowned vehicles, turn to the pros at Joe Bowman Auto Plaza. We’ve been helping people to buy a vehicle that fits their lifestyle and budget for more than 60 years.
A set of tires is one of the most expensive replacements on your vehicle. That’s why you want to get as much use out of them as possible.
Rotating and balancing your tires are two different procedures. Both increase the safety and efficiency of your tires. For tire rotation, the wheels are removed and replaced front to back, right to left.
Balancing requires a special machine to check the tire’s weight and the wheel’s balance. If the tire isn’t balanced, our certified Chevy technicians will attach small weights to the rim of the wheel. This ensures that they are balanced.
How Often Should You Rotate and Balance Your Tires?
Most tire manufacturers recommend rotating and balancing tires every 7,000 miles. Or check your owner’s manual. A great way to keep up with this is to keep a maintenance log in your glove box. Every time you get your oil changed, record the number of miles.
Over time, you’ll see that you’ll need to have your tires rotated and balanced every other oil change.
The Big Reason to Rotate and Balance Your Tires Regularly
Tread wears more quickly on your front tires than on the rear tires. With the loss of tread, it makes it easier to lose control of your vehicle. When you rotate tires regularly, front tires retain more tread, and tires last longer!
A regular maintenance practice keeps your car safer on the road, but it also is cost-saving. If you didn’t rotate your tires regularly, they would wear out more quickly.
Regular tire rotation and balancing helps ensure even wear, replacing a set of four at one time instead of having to purchase two more tires later.
What Causes Tires to Become Out of Balance?
There are many ways reasons tires can become unbalanced. Here are three of the most common:
• Hard skidding in a panic braking situation causing a tire to flat spot. If this happens, the tire is no longer round which adds vibration while driving.
• A bent rim. Also, the loss of a counterweight.
• Aggressive acceleration or braking. This can result in a tire-to-rim slippage causing an imbalance.
And while a vibration is a dead giveaway that you have a tire imbalance, many times, your tires can be out of balance, and you don’t know it!
That’s why regular checks are so important.
Can You Avoid Tire Imbalance Right from the Start?
Yes! Buy quality tires, ones with sound uniformity which means how round and even they are. Combine a quality tire with a good balancing job, and you’ll benefit from even weight distribution, and that means optimal wear right from the start!
When you’re ready to buy a new Chevrolet car, truck, or SUV, or one of our quality preowned vehicles, turn to the pros at Joe Bowman Auto Plaza. We’ve been helping people to buy a vehicle that fits their lifestyle and budget for more than 60 years.
