Tire Balance
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Melting Slicks
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Tire Balance
Anyone have any experience with using Dyna Beads for balancing your tires? Looking at there web sight it looks pretty simple & straight forward. Plus it works with tire pressure monitors. Any comments good or bad?
7th Gear
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From: Pittsford NY
When the skins are due on the 2003 I just bought, I'll be using Dyna Beads.
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They are incredible....I used them on my Colorado with 31's, got over 80 thousand miles on the tires with original balance, and they had perfectly even wear.
The only drawback I've heard is there may be clearance issues between the weights and the brakes.
The only drawback I've heard is there may be clearance issues between the weights and the brakes.
7th Gear
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From: Pittsford NY
This is from www.innovativebalancing.com, the makers of DynaBeads:
" While our product is designed to be used without weights on most vehicles, we advise customers with low-profile tires to use a specified Maintenance Level in their tires and keeping the weights on has accomplished two goals: The ride smooths out noticably, and most future rebalancing requirements have been eliminated. This is also the solution for customers having tires with an existing lateral imbalance."
To find the correct "Maintenance Level", go to the FAQ's on their website.
" While our product is designed to be used without weights on most vehicles, we advise customers with low-profile tires to use a specified Maintenance Level in their tires and keeping the weights on has accomplished two goals: The ride smooths out noticably, and most future rebalancing requirements have been eliminated. This is also the solution for customers having tires with an existing lateral imbalance."
To find the correct "Maintenance Level", go to the FAQ's on their website.
Melting Slicks
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Just find a shop that does things right. I'd never put crap like that in my tires, whether it works or not. I personally balance my bike's tires, and never an issue. Similar to putting 'Slick 50' in your oil, or a 'tornado' in your intake system. If all that crap was that great, manufacturers would use it 
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Just find a shop that does things right. I'd never put crap like that in my tires, whether it works or not. I personally balance my bike's tires, and never an issue. Similar to putting 'Slick 50' in your oil, or a 'tornado' in your intake system. If all that crap was that great, manufacturers would use it .
.I don't have a clue why manufacturers don't use them and I really never gave it much thought, but give this a thought. If manufacturers led the way in innovation, there wouldn't be such vast aftermarket offerings for every type of vehicle on the road. Your factory tires the best? How about that exhaust system? And everyone knows how superior factory sound systems are! Manufacturers are motivated certainly by offering quality products in a very competitive market, but that is always balanced against COST ... cost of manufacturing, cost of goods sold, product life, etc. Innovation isn't even close to the top of their priority list until they have to innovate to catch the competition.
To each his own ... me, I think DynaBeads are a great product.
