Wheel balancing questions

[mzaalam]

Hey all. Had a winter tyre change today at a local tyre place. But the guy started insisting the rear wheels don't need balancing. Thankfully had 3G reception so googled quickly and found it was a no brainer so insisted they did it.

The problem is I'm not sure they've balanced as well as they should - the readout on the machine after balancing didn't always say '0 0'. On one of them for example it said '0 2' - I think the right hand number referred to the outside of the wheel - so does that mean the wheel's not balanced enough?

Should all the numbers be zero?

[HustleRussell]

The smallest weight they're likely to use is 5 grams. 2 grams is an acceptable tolerance.
Their insistance that rears don't need balancing is indeed a total piss-take.

[mzaalam]

HustleRussell said:

The smallest weight they're likely to use is 5 grams. 2 grams is an acceptable tolerance.
Their insistance that rears don't need balancing is indeed a total piss-take.

Phew - thanks for the response. Yeah I don't think I'll be taking it back there again in 6 months, but good to know they weren't totally incompetent. There didn't seem to be a wobble or anything either

[Andyjc86]

I've not seen a tyre balancer that goes to less the 5g, so chances are the reading was 20g. He's talking bks that the rears don't need balancing.