Balance your trailer tires?

orangeTJ

Explorer
I think they should be balanced.

Here's a video of the tires on one of my trailers. Granted, these are low end, made overseas tires:

 

Semi-Hex

Enfant Terrible
I have my setup so I could use my trailer tires for an emergency spare if needed, so they are balanced.
 

Jmanscotch

is wandering
It's pretty common on utility and even some RV's to see tires that are not balanced.

Sure seems silly. Anyone who's mounted a few tires themselves will know damn well that it's a bad idea not to.

I once bought a car for $100 because the person was convinced it had transmission issues. It needed the wheels balanced (they had taken the weights off to paint the wheels, presumably). Drove it for a while, sold it to a friend for good money and he's still driving it today as a beater.

Tires need balanced on anything that's going to go highway speeds, anything. Rock crawlers, golf cars and lawn mowers are the type of exceptions.
 

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