A shudder you only feel once the Handsworth shops are behind you and Holyhead Road opens up is almost always a balance fault, and the balancer rides out to your street.
Nobody spots an unbalanced wheel crawling along Soho Road. It turns up when the A41 Holyhead Road opens out towards West Bromwich and M5 J1, or on the A34 Birchfield Road, when the rim starts shaking in your hands. A hum through the seat rather than the wheel usually means a rear one. Weights get knocked off against the kerbs on the Rookery Road and Grove Lane terraces, and Hamstead Road potholes shift them too.
The balancing machine sits in the back of the van, which spares your Handsworth car any journey at all. The wheel comes off, goes on the machine, is spun, and has fresh weights fitted exactly where the readout asks, then is torqued back on with the pressure reset. Say which corner feels wrong, whether it started after a kerb or a new tyre, and give the street off Grove Lane or the Handsworth Wood address. What it comes to is settled on the call.
The Leisure Centre car park, a Handsworth Wood driveway, or a residential street off Rookery Road with about a metre clear beside the wheel. The red route along Soho Road is out, and so is the tram stop area at Booth Street.
| Near | Handsworth Park, Soho Road, Handsworth Leisure Centre |
|---|---|
| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Have a wheel balanced the day a tyre is replaced on it, and again once a puncture has been patched, since the repair changes how the weight sits. A bare strip on the rim shows where a clip has parted company. What we cannot help with is alignment, a job for a garage rig: a Handsworth car dragging towards one side on Hamstead Road, or scrubbing a tread edge bald, wants that instead.
Steering shaking on the A41? Handsworth wheels are balanced where the car already stands.
