Fort Parkway carries Hodge Hill traffic past Fort Dunlop to M6 J5, and that is where an unbalanced wheel is felt. Balancing happens on your drive, a shared court or The Fort Shopping Park car park.
Hodge Hill's estate roads are slow, with raised kerbs and speed cushions, so the shimmer of a wheel out of balance usually appears on the A47 Fort Parkway heading for M6 J5 or along the Outer Circle on Bromford Lane. Those same kerbs and cushions are what upset the balance, bruising a rim or knocking off a weight. On the Bromford estate, parking courts with sharp kerb edges add more knocks to the tally.
Level ground is the whole requirement: tarmac on a Bucklands End driveway, a firm parking court or a marked bay at the shopping park, and never a grass verge. Each wheel comes off and is spun on the balancing machine carried in the van; the readout shows exactly where weight belongs, and a repeat spin proves the correction held. Back on the hub, each nut is tightened to its torque setting. Name your block if you are on the Bromford estate. Pricing is settled first.
Hodge Hill Common driveways, a level court on the Bromford estate and a quiet bay at The Fort all give the balancer somewhere steady to stand. Bromford Lane, Fort Parkway and any grass verge are ruled out.
| Near | Hodge Hill Common, The Fort Shopping Park, Fort Dunlop |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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Balance matters on a car that uses the M6 regularly from J5. A wheel that is out leaves scalloped patches on the tread and makes the steering feel busy. New tyres, a puncture repair with the tyre removed from its rim, and a weight gone after a speed cushion all call for it. Drifting towards the kerb or an off-centre steering wheel on Coleshill Road is alignment instead, which we do not provide.
Hodge Hill wheels balanced on the drive, court or Fort car park before the M6 run.
