When the A41 opens out beyond Acocks Green village towards Olton, a poorly balanced wheel starts to tremble through your hands. Balancing is done on your B27 drive, with the machine unloaded from our van.
Traffic in Acocks Green village, where the Warwick Road meets Yardley Road by the green, moves too slowly for imbalance to register. Beyond it the A41 runs on towards Olton and Solihull, and Olton Boulevard East carries cars up to the Coventry Road, and on those stretches a missing weight makes itself known. The short bays outside the village shops are where alloys get clipped, and a clip-on weight is often the first casualty of a misjudged parking attempt.
Driveway addresses are the norm on the residential streets either side of Fox Hollies Park, which makes Acocks Green straightforward. Our fitter lifts the car there, removes a wheel and fixes it to the balancing machine in the van. After a spin the display shows how far out it is, weights are added to correct it, and a second spin confirms the result. The wheel returns to the hub and its nuts are torqued before the next corner is raised. The quote comes before any of this.
Drives on the residential avenues near Fox Hollies Park, a quiet stretch of Alexander Road and a bay at Acocks Green station all suit the balancer. The short village bays and the busy Yardley Road junction are no good.
| Near | Acocks Green station, Acocks Green village green, Fox Hollies Park |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Balancing suits four situations here: a set of new tyres, a tyre refitted after a puncture repair, a weight knocked off in the village bays, and tread that has begun to wear in blotches. It will not straighten a car that pulls towards the Warwick Road kerb or wears the edge of one front tyre; that is wheel alignment, which a garage with an alignment rig should look at, because it is not part of our work.
Acocks Green wheels balanced on the drive or at the station, weights set and nuts torqued.
