XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Ed P wrote:   
      
   >> The ability to repair your tires at home is just an added convenience.   
   >   
   > Of course to to it right you also need to be able to balance them too.   
   > What does that cost?   
   >   
   > I find it easier to pay and read a magazine while the work is being   
   > done.  I get a few years out of a set of tires.   
      
   If someone hasn't mounted/balanced tires, then the only thing they usually   
   know about mounting or balancing tires is what their momma told them.   
      
   Which is not much.   
      
   Mounting and balancing tires has been done by hand for ages, and there's   
   nothing special about current tires other than they're even easier to do.   
      
   People who say it's hard are the same people who say mowing is hard work.   
   The real reason they come up with crazy excuses is that they don't like it.   
      
   If all you know about balancing tires is the advertising that Hunter spews   
   trying to make the average mom and pop consumer think they need space-age   
   balancing, then you don't know that static balancing works just fine most   
   of the time, & even if it's slightly off, driving will tell the truth.   
      
   Static balancing, when done at home, takes far less weight than dynamic and   
   road force balancing takes in the shop because you do the job right first.   
      
   You first balance the wheel and then you balance the tire on the wheel.   
   Then you drive it, and if there's no vibration, they're balanced.   
      
   There's no such thing as imperceptible wheel or tire vibration.   
   Just like there's no such thing as a weed that a lawn mower can't see.   
      
   The vibration thing is an imaginary boogeyman.   
   Hunter created it. Read their literature on how to sell the service.   
      
   They tell the technicians to scare the crap out of you on vibration.   
   It's a scam to sell services which aren't needed almost all the time.   
      
   Sure, a bad tire comes off the lot every once in a while.   
   With electronics today, it's a lot less than Hunter would have you think.   
      
   There's no excuse for not balancing your tires in your own garage.   
   Unless you can't find a flat spot that is a foot and a half wide, that is.   
      
   It's only people who don't want to do the job who make up crazy excuses.   
   They shouldn't be on this ng if they have to make up excuses like that.   
      
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