I can just imagine the reaction of the tyre fitter when (s)he goes to fit a new tyre and gets showered in glass beads and ends up roller skating around the workshop on them!

I've been doing this for over 15 years, just not glass balls but metal ones. Here in the US we have what we call BB guns for the kids. They use BB size ball bearings for ammo, and is very inexpensive. I use 3 oz of BB's in my personal vehicle tires, and 10 oz of BB's in each of my 10 wheel dump truck, and semi tractor tires. Most of the other truckers use golf balls! At the truck stops I kept seeing advertisements for something called "centramatics" which are metal discs with a tube around the perimeter filled with oil and small metal balls. They are supposed to be placed on the hub but behind the tire. They were supposed to dynamically balance your tires as you are rolling down the road. I thought it was just a bunch of snake oil at first, until I saw a small powered display on a countertop with a small tire, a big lumpy weight on one side of the wheel, and a clear tube around the perimeter of the wheel with some large metal balls in it. There was a strobe light and a knob you could turn to vary the timing of the strobe. I turned on the motor which spun the wheel, and of course it jumped around for just a second due to the lumpy weight then smoothed right out. I turned the knob for the variable strobe light until the tire looked stationary, though in reality it was spinning rapidly, and found most of those metal balls had moved around opposite the big weight, and the extras that weren't needed were spaced around a little bit. I was sold, but I didn't have $100 per axle to spend on my truck. So I thought about it a bunch and figured out that $10 worth of BB's inside the 10 truck tires would do the same thing. I tried it, and to my delight it worked great! I haven't looked back since, and still use them to this day. When I need new tires, I tell the Tire Guy they are in there, and I use a magnet to swap them from the old tire to the new one. In the video, when you tried to use the balancing machine, I think it would have shown up better if the balancing machine spinned the tire for another few seconds before spinning down, giving enough time for the glass balls to spread out properly.

Thank you for being one of the few who actually did the test on the balancer. I've been searching for 45 minutes for actual measured evidence and you're the first to do it! Subbed just for that.

Imagine the sound and impact of every time you slow/come to a stop, those balls ricocheting all over the inside of the barrel of the wheel and the TPMS sensors....

I wonder whether these will wear or damage the tyre pressure sensors, where fitted? This won’t be an issue at high speed but at start-off and slow speed these thing will be shot-blasting the whole cavity.

I have used dynamic beads for years in my Harley-Davidson and have been well pleased. Truckers in the US use them almost exclusively (exception being they are stainless steel vice glass). The beads I have used were ceramic but many variety are out there. Hadn't considered them for my L405 but will probably do so when I get new tires.

I wasn't expecting this to amount to much, but once you put the tyre on the wheel balancer with the balls inside, it was very obviously doing something and doing something right! Not sure whether they are better than lead weights, but definitely something to look more deeply into. Interesting stuff Simon!

Lovely job 🚘🚙🚗👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Random idea for cheap balancing. Could you not build a thin gauge steel donut around the shaft and put afew loose ball bearings in it to act as dynamic balancers like those glass bead tyre balancing balls you see that go in the tyre.

Jimny Death wobble rather than wheel balancing, just emailed you Suzuki Service Bulletin

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I dont think you are supposed to put the bag in as well! Just pour the beads in and they will find the balance point, the beads will obviously fall to the bottom of the tyre when you stop rolling, and it is not until you get to the out of balance speed that they will move to the correct spot, they look a bit lightweight to have much effect on a normally unbalanced wheel, but there is a similar system using liquid tyre puncture sealant, that also finds the out of balance area and has the same effect, it also finds and puncture and seals that from inside, ideal for slower moving vehicles, although with the present speed limits we are all slow moving vehicles now! Chris B.

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I think I’d stick with the tried and tested method of weights

Same as putting those FTC fuel pellets in the tank to remove carbon deposits - snake oil will work just as good....

Simon. Somebody has to say it “ It’s just a load of balls”.😀 A no from me!

My LR tyre wouldn’t balance at dealer and they found it had water inside. How does water get in 😂

So when you need to replace a tyre what happens then..... attempt to catch all the glass balls so you can reuse them again??? Also you may not need 85g worth of beads inside. Definitely sounds a loads of Balls to me and fit tyres at work and I've seen wheels that are way(!!!!!) out of balance when we put them on the balancer with a new tyre fitted.

What worries me is that many vehicles - including Land Rover have Tyre Pressure Monitors inside the wheel. These would likely get damaged by all the balls flying around inside the tyre - so a definite NO! for me. Even if it works, the likely damage to the TPM is just far too risky.

Tried them in large 4wd tyres and they were useless. Supplier said "u need more in there". Na, not going there again...

Check what we use in the US for Semi Truck tyres!

That wobble is improper tire wear patterns.

I used a sealant to repair tire punctures and this is what I felt myself; It doesn't working correct, the imbalance hasn't gone away. It will be bigger with increasing speed. and the imbalance will fluctuate. Tire wear will be uneven. That bolls, whatever kind of, do not fix anyhing

The only thing I heard the entire video was "ballocks" lol

I think you need a tire alignment !

It is an idea but surely they all roll down to the bottom when you park so on driving off, you have four wheels miles out of balance???…..are these sold by the same ones selling copper bracelets to cure arthritis??😱😬😬😀😀😀😀

I dont think the plastic bag is meant to go in the tire.. The glass balls would do the balancing work; not the baggy.

My guess is that those balls will immediately begin to disintegrate until they leave you with a complete mess and unbalanced wheels. I’d personally remove all 4 tires, clean out all the balls, chips and powder and do a proper balance. Even us Americans know how to use the word “Proper” Now on to the issue of Aluminum.. 😁

you are supposed to take off the plastic bag ...

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you did it completely wrong. first off, your not supposed to dump the plastic bag in. second, there is a formula regarding the weight of each wheel and how many ounces per lb/kg to use.

George might have to carry his spare balls to inhibit wobbles. 🙈👍🏻🙏🦘

This is nothing new they have been successful used in truck and trailer tyre's for the last 50 years that i no of .willemog.