Designed for use on Ferraris, Porsches, Mercedes, and BMWs, our mounting equipment provides scratch-free handling of expensive alloy wheels. Each wheel is clamped from the inside, and a special “mounting head” prevents metal-to-metal contact. Twin Teflon breaking rollers provide “no violence” breaking by gently pinching the two beads together rather than using a side-breaking shovel to rupture the bead. It safely mounts high-performance low-profile and runflat tires as well as tires with normal aspect ratios. We handle tires equipped with TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems) with ease.

At 60 miles an hour, an average tire rotates 850 times per minute. At this speed, slight variations in balance, sidewall stiffness, or roundness can cause a tire to literally slam into the pavement 14 times a second. Uncorrected, such variations can result in uncomfortable vibration, excessive tire wear, damage to suspension or steering systems, or unsafe steering and handling. For the best balance possible, our computerized equipment uses dynamic balancing to correct imbalances on two weight planes (“up-and-down” and “side-to-side”). Many shops still use static balancing that only addresses “up-and-down” imbalances. This is simply not adequate for today’s vibration-sensitive vehicles.

TireVan provides Road Force balancing as an optional service. Especially for today’s low-profile high-performance tires, this separate procedure puts your balanced wheel and tire under a load to simulate actual driving conditions. Variations in tire sidewall stiffness are noted, and electronically matched to variations in your wheel. The tire is then rotated on your wheel and remounted for the best vibration-eliminating alignment of wheel and tire. The objective is to create a tire/wheel assembly that is as “round while rolling” as possible. This process also detects rim "runout" and other wheel defects, which ordinary balancing cannot diagnose.

TireVan also provides Straight Trak Lateral Force Measurement as an optional service when doing Road Force balancing. One of the most difficult problems to correct is vehicle pull. Straight Trak LFM allows us to measure and correct tire pull and vehicle drift caused by the tires or wheels themselves. Based on tire handling measurements taken during Road Force balancing, a computerized recommendation is created allowing us to match specific tires and wheels to specific locations of your vehicle to minimize or eliminate vehicle drift or pull caused by the wheels and tires.