Balance beads?

anyone using balance beads in there tires? What’s your opinion? Do they work?

 

Yes and yes. I think I will be going to them exclusively.
The tire shops are here charge so much, wait is so long and never seems to be done correctly anyways.
There awesome in my motorcycle.
I had a pair off 33s that rode like poo and beads helped alot.
Do realize tho it takes some centrifugal force to get them going, they say 35.
So if your tires had a bad shake at 25 ur going to have to get thru that every time you get moving again.

 

Seems like a Band-Aid for a bigger problem.

Never really heard of anyone running them on anything under 37'' in offroad tires.

 

They are dependent on knowing how much your tires weigh?

 

Curious if they'd be constant beating on the TPMS

Also if they'd create a cyclical noise of some type.

 

I run 10oz in each tire with no static weights whatsoever, and all I can say is I’ve never had better balanced tires. Never wasting money to have tires balanced again.

 

Dyna beads has a chart where u look up tire size and load rating and they recommend an amount per tire.

 

Once the tire is spinning they don’t move around.

 

That is what I was hoping, hate the hammer on weights and the stick on ones fly off after awhile.. gotta be a better way

 

You can also run BBs or Airsoft pellets

 

I've had quite a bit of experience trialing balance beads on 37's on a jeep, including dynabeads, some other larger ceramic bead, and even airsoft BB's - I've never had tremendous success with any of them. They were kind of a last ditch effort. In one instance, they actually made things worse... in another, they were the only thing that "worked", but they weren't perfect; they just made them tolerable. Even then, any time I'd hit a bump, they would lose their centrifugal force and I'd have a couple seconds of shaking before they'd settle back in.

They can help, but should be considered as a last resort. Road force balancing is the ideal solution, and worth a try first.

Just to also emphasize on the potential PITA they can be: Had just finished mounting new tires to beadlocks; by the time I was done, the tire shops were all closed... but... I had to leave for a trip early in the morning, so I ran to a store to buy airsoft BB's. Came back, had to undo all the rings, dumped in the recommended weight of BB's in each one, then put all the rings back on... my ride the next morning was terrible; anything over 50mph and they shook like crazy; that was a long trip. I stopped by a shop on the way, but they wouldn't spin the tires with beads in. So a few days later, after getting back home, I had to undo all the rings again, vacuum out all the beads, re-assemble, again... then take it to a tire shop. they couldn't get them perfect either, and recommend... you guessed it, that I try beads, LOL. So I did, under their assumption that between the stick on weights and the beads, it would smooth out. It didn't. Then someone said to remove the weights, and put in the equivalent weight in beads, they still sucked. So after another few tedious rounds of beadlock disassembly/reassembly... vacuumed all the beads out again, I took it to a shop with a road force balancer... and that was finally the ticket (for that set at least... fast forward a couple years, and another set wouldn't balance out for nothing, I eventually tried beads again, and those were the ones that were "tolerable" with beads, but not perfect).

That was my experience anyways... have a few other jeep friends with similar experiences with them as well.