Tire rotation requires balancing??

[drew4392]

Has anybody heard of this? My local indy shop says tire rotation requires a balance. They want to charge me $100.

Thoughts?


Thanks!

[nudavinci64]

never heard that before. If you have a lot of wear on your tires you may want to get them balanced. I only balanced and rotated when I had it for free with a purchase of a set of tires. Rotate them yourself and balance them if you are feeling some wobble or not handling right. Mostly noticeable at higher speeds.

[S4 00 2.7]

Require it - NO. What's the reason for that?

Do not go back to this place.

[y2blade]

No, the tyre/wheel is balanced OFF the car...it can go on any axle.

[RickFLS4]

No, I regularly have tires rotated without getting them balanced, most recently about a week ago. You should only need to balance the tires if you feel the ride is telling you to do so. Further, even gouging by an Audi dealer would get you to about $80 with balancing. I pay $20 at a local shop to rotate, $40 at dealer if I get it done there, in both cases without balancing. I would never go back to the shop if they say balancing is always required and their cost is $100.

[Dr Chill]

No vibration, no balancing required.

[seanj130]

In the north during the winter wheel weights fall off easy and knock the tire of of balance. so when I get them rotated every other oil change, I get them balanced. Same with when I get alignment

[MrFunk]

LOL - report them to the BBB - that is rediculous. - UNLESS they are recommending balancing because the wheels are in fact out of balance - but a tire rotation does not REQUIRE wheel balancing as much as it REQUIRES an pollen filter replacement.

[helix139]

Sounds like the same type of crap I heard where the BMW dealership told my buddy he had to get an alignment every time he got new tires.

[Vito Roma]

no it doesn't

[Norm_S4]

Sounds like the same type of crap I heard where the BMW dealership told my buddy he had to get an alignment every time he got new tires.

Well actually the only logic behind this would be that new tires = milleage done on the car and that = to possible shock wear and weakness to the entire suspension thus not being perfectly aligned.

The magic word here is "perfectly".

I also believe thats crap so dont shoot me but the "perfectly" approach does, to a certain extent, make sense if you are into camber/toe and racing the car I think.

I'm not defending them but I've heard of these comments and I got it once myself from a respected place I dealth with for other cars I owned. The guy would not BS me and he actually showed me latter on with my buddies car what he ment by it.

There is a small difference but I would think you might want to do this only if its your "every second" set of summer tires and you didn't upgrade the suspension or obviously brought it in for an alignment due to the said upgrade. Then again if its your second set of tires, you might have over maybe 40K miles on it and shocks will start to weaken anyway.

The guy's point was that particularly shocks settle more and more as wear takes place and thus the alignment thing.

I still think good old basic brain thinking and judgement is the best. Afterall we drive our cars, we tend to look at tire pressure, how it feels each time we take it out and then give it a run for it. Its then that you should get an idea if you have to do it or not for either balance on rotation or align if things were good.

Then again this is for general DD... I'm sure if you drive it to the races and then get on the track, this is another ball game.

[drew4392]

Thanks all. I'm staying away from this place.

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[westwest888]

If a wheel is missing wheel weights, then yeah.