Hey all. I just got new rims for my DD and the car is shaking like hell. I'm going tomorrow morning to get them balanced and I was just wondering about how much it would cost me. I hated the old rims I had. Ugly and small.
How much to get rims balanced
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Well i got the rims for free from my girlfriends dad. $2k worth of rims and tires for free! Cant beat that with a stick.
Good stuff. Nice to have a little bit of an idea. I guess I'll let ya know tomorrow.
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unless you have them dynamically balancedyoure waisting your time. IMO of course.itll probablycost around 85 bucksfor all four.
lagged said:
Damn that’s expensive! I paid $8 per tire to have them mounted and dynamically balanced back in my old home town. It was pretty common to switch between a winter pair of tires and a summer pair of tires on a set of rims. So mounting and balancing happened a lot.
dirgle said:
Thats what I'm hoping for. I just got my paycheck and I'd rather not blow a fourth of it on balancing rims. I'd rather dump it into the Supra.
IJ. said:Bugger I was going to sell up here move to the US open a balancing shop and rake the $$$ in
to do that you must sell your soul.
Lol IJ.
It might be a regional thing. Because of the winters where I lived in Colorado. You had to have studded snow tires for the winter, and a separate set of tires for summer, other wise you would ruin the winter tires.
So tires got mounted and balanced twice a year for every car so those balancing machines got paid off pretty quick. Other places that don't do it as often might charge more for the service.
It might be a regional thing. Because of the winters where I lived in Colorado. You had to have studded snow tires for the winter, and a separate set of tires for summer, other wise you would ruin the winter tires.
So tires got mounted and balanced twice a year for every car so those balancing machines got paid off pretty quick. Other places that don't do it as often might charge more for the service.
D34DC311 said:
Lol, my friends brother traded him his soul for a bag of chips. Anyway, I'll let you all know how much it is later today. And hopefully I wont have to put my old rims back on because of some ludicrous price to get the balanced.
I work in a garage and balancing's like 3.99 a tire when you buy tires. I make a whopping 30cents in commission on it I think.
I wish my shop charged 85 bucks for balancing... even with 10 percent commission I could make like 140+ bucks an hour!
I wish my shop charged 85 bucks for balancing... even with 10 percent commission I could make like 140+ bucks an hour!
the machine to REALLY dynamically balance the wheels ON the car is expensive, along with training etc etc.
any one who can see a light blink and hear a buzzer can use the old balancing machine.
any one who can see a light blink and hear a buzzer can use the old balancing machine.