Getting The Balance Right

Wheel balancing is much more than sticking a lead weight on a wheel – increasingly, people do not want their nice, expensive alloy wheels defaced with a lump of metal, so new programmes have to be introduced to make sure that the weights are hidden, yet safely attached. And the weights differ too, depending on the car model and wheel type. Then there’s the “ban lead weights” argument – all in all there’s more to balancing than appears at first sight.