will remounting tires help with balance issues?

Tire position on the vehicle does not affect wheel/tire balancing. I have a ton of weights on my wheels also I'm guessing because of the TPMS sensors. If you threw a weight, only way to fix it is to replace the weight unfortunately.

 

Sometimes rotating the tire 180 on the rim can help. There is sometimes a heavy spot on the tire and one on the rim that line up during mounting.

 

She's not talking about moving the wheels around on the vehicle, she's talking about repositioning the tires on the wheels. And the answer is yes, repositioning the tires CAN help with balancing. It's called road force balancing.

One question is, after you were in the dirt, was there a lot of dirt buildup on the wheels? If yes, that will effect balancing. If not, then you did most likely lose a weight and need another rebalance. You might want to ask them to road force at least the couple wheels with excessive weights.

 

Another option is to find a shop that with a roadforce balancing machine. I have had issues with tires and this has ALWAYS fixed it. One consideration is that all wheels do not fit on this machine and I have never owned 31's.

 

Shit i just ordered wheels and tires from Tire Rack they do road force balancing and I had major vibes I took the truck to Les Schwab and the backs needed over 13oz now my truck runs down the road as it should.

 

have you ran over any bears lately?

 

Jlee, no sweat, if they needed 13oz, then so be it. the roadforce machines do not change the weight needed to balance a tire, they just analyze a tire at 40MPH with force applied as if you were driving. Other machines spin the tire without applying a force to the tread. This will work in most instances, but for stubborn balancing, roadforce has proved itself to me 3 times. PS- tirerack has a list of service centers with pricing in your area and they list the machine used to balance your tires.

 

If the vibes just started with new tires, it's not your wheels. Unless the tire is out of round(basically defective and will never balance correctly), road force balancing will almost guarantee to fix it.

 

Road force balancing can definitely change weight needed to balance a tire. Every wheel and every tire has a heavy spot, and lots of weight usually means that the heavy spots are too close together(meaning one very heavy spot), which is why so much weight is needed to counter-balance the heavy spot.

Road forcing doesn't just analyze the tire, it also determines where the heavy spots are on each and tells the tire tech exactly where to position the tire on the wheel, usually resulting in less weight need to counter balance the heavy spot.

 

My bad, I thought you were talking about rotating the wheel on the hub, not the tire on the rim. That may help you with the excessive amount of weights but the others on here are correct, certain tires are a PITA to balance, some impossible due to defects.

 

Yeah it's taken care of now and Tire Rack is paying for the Balance. I do have stubborn tires to balance 33"x12.5x15" DuraTracks mounted on 15"x10's with a 3.74" backspacing and -44mm offset so there's a lot of rim on the outside of the wheel. Here's a shot of the wheels and tires.

 

13oz of weight is a lot theres no that tire is being balanced correctly
or theres something wrong with the wheel is it bent
Or theres something wrong with the guy doing the balance
if this guy put 13oz of weights on your tires/wheels somethings wrong
that should never have left the shop like that
Lisa all can say is find a new shop
I would like to see a pic of that wheel with 13oz on them