A steering wheel that trembles once you pass Westoning heading for M1 J12 tends to point to an unbalanced wheel; in Flitwick, the balancer comes out to your drive.
Flitwick drivers tend to notice an imbalance where the road finally opens up: the A5120 south through Westoning and Toddington, the M1 beyond J12, or the A507 run past Ampthill to J13. Pottering along Station Road nothing seems wrong. A buzz through the steering wheel points to a front wheel, while a shimmy felt through the seat or floor usually starts at the back. Speed humps across the estates can knock a clip-on weight loose.
Balancing is worth doing whenever a new tyre goes on, after a tyre has been lifted off its rim for a puncture repair, when a weight has dropped off, or after a hard knock against one of the kerbed islands at Westoning. On your Flitwick drive the fitter takes the wheel off, mounts it on the van's electronic balancer, spins it, and adds weights where the machine shows the heavy spot sits.
Flitwick drives off Steppingley Road or Dunstable Road suit the job, as do kerbs in Greenfield, Flitton and Pulloxhill. The Rufus Centre car park works from an end bay; the permit streets beside Flitwick station leave little room for the van.
| Near | Flitwick station, Flitwick Moor, Flitwick Leisure Centre |
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| Typical arrival | Around 1.5 to 2 hours |
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Balancing is a different job from wheel alignment, and alignment is something Rescue Tyres does not offer. A car that drifts to one side on the A6 near Silsoe, or a front tyre scrubbing away on its inner edge, points to steering geometry and a garage with an alignment rig. Shake that comes in at a certain speed and eases off again above it is the balancing fault. Describe the symptom on the call and the Flitwick price is confirmed then.
Shake through the wheel past Westoning? Book wheel balancing on your Flitwick drive.
