Wheel balancing
in Towcester.

Shaking at speed in Towcester? Balance the wheels where the car is parked.

Towcester drivers put a lot of their mileage on the A43 dual carriageway, heading north past the Tove roundabout to Northampton and the M1, or south to Silverstone and Brackley. At that steady pace, a wheel with uneven mass sends a regular tremor up the steering column or into the seat base. Watling Street through the town is lined with kerbs and short-stay bays, and parking against them is a classic way to knock a balance weight off without noticing.

Balancing matters every time a tyre is mounted, repaired or disturbed, and also after a kerb strike, or once you spot a bare patch where a weight used to sit. With the car on your Towcester Vale drive, each wheel is lifted off and turned on the balancer the van carries, weights are added exactly where the machine says, and the wheel is refitted to torque. Tell us which wheel and roughly when the shake appears, and the NN12 price is agreed before anything starts.

Balancing is not alignment

Balancing will not help every symptom. If the car pulls left or right on the A5, or the fronts wear along one shoulder, the wheel angles need checking, which means alignment at a garage; Rescue Tyres does not offer it. A tyre that has flat-spotted after standing for a long spell, or an alloy bent in a pothole on a village lane, may shake whatever weights are used. The balancer reveals those, and the fitter explains the options there and then.