Pro-Align Explains Hunter SmartWeight Award-Winning Benefits

Having been voted the winner of this year’s TAFF Innovation Award by the National Tyre Distributors Association judging panel despite tough competition from many other innovative products, the team behind the Hunter SmartWeight Balancing system was keen to reveal the benefits of using the product. Hunter says that it took “a completely fresh look at balancing methodology and came up with an entirely new system that works with greater efficiency and split tolerances, the features that helped it to the innovation award and which it says benefit operators over comparative products. Supplier of wheel alignment and balancing equipment, Pro-Align listed the features that helped SmartWeight on its way to the TAFF Awards:

1) Weight Saving. The amount of weight saved using SmartWeight balancing is the most obvious benefit of using the system with tyre shops saving at least 35 per cent on wheel weight usage (and therefore cost).  Pro-Align also says that it has found from its customers that high volume balancing has seen savings of 39 per cent or more.
 
2) Cost Saving. By saving this much weight, there is a direct cost saving to the end user.

3) Labour Saving. In the many cases, only one correction weight (occasionally even no correction weights) is required and there is no need for constant check spins, which offers great savings in labour. From the feedback received from Pro-Align customers, technicians have a tendency to move to the SmartWeight balancer because it is much quicker and easier to use than their traditional balancers.

4) Visually a better job. This was named by Pro-Align as “an unexpected benefit”. Customers perceive it to be a better job due to the fact that fewer weights can be seen. The wheel visual looks better, especially for alloys, claims the distributor.

5) Fewer Customer Returns/Complaints. SmartWeight users have commented that they have noticed they have had a reduced number of customer returns.

6) Environment Savings. There is less wheel weight scrap/waste generated and less electricity used as each job takes less time, both of which make a contribution in waste and energy savings.