A wobble through the wheel along Watling Street towards Tamworth is often a balance fault. The balancer travels in the van, so Atherstone wheels are spun and weighted on your drive or work car park.
Drivers leaving Atherstone mostly join the A5, whether that is the bypass heading south-east oM42he stretch west past Dordon to the M42 at junction 10. Once the car settles into a cruise, a wheel carrying uneven weight sets up a rhythm: a flutter in the steering if a front is to blame, a hum through the seat if a rear is. A scrape against a kerb on Long Street can knock a weight off an alloy, and a new tyre mounted without balancing causes the same shake.
The fitter lifts each suspect wheel free and mounts it on the balancer bolted inside the fitting van. Its display points to the heavy side, weights are fixed to the rim opposite it, and the Atherstone wheel is spun again to prove it before being torqued back on. Book it after new tyres, after a repair, or whenever a Grendon or Baddesley Ensor car picks up a shake it never had before. Give the registration and wheel size, and the CV9 price is fixed during that conversation.
Mancetter and Grendon driveways suit the balancer, and so does a works car park on Holly Lane or Carlyon Road with permission. Long Street's short-stay bays are too narrow; pick a side street off it instead.
| Near | Atherstone station, Long Street and Market Square, Atherstone Leisure Complex |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Balancing only deals with how weight is spread around the wheel. A car that wanders towards the verge on the A5, or a tyre wearing down its inner shoulder, needs alignment, which is outside what Rescue Tyres does; a garage with a laser rig can check it. A buckled alloy from a deep pothole, or a tyre whose tread is separating, can shake too, and no weight hides that. The fitter tells you straight if the fault is not balance, and says so before any weights go on.
Vibration on Watling Street? Book wheel balancing at your Atherstone drive or works car park.
