Weoley Castle roads are too slow to show a wheel out of balance, but out on the A38 or the M5 via Quinton the steering starts to shimmer, and we balance it on your drive.
Nobody builds up much pace round Weoley Castle Square or along Alwold Road, which is why imbalance often goes unnoticed until the car reaches the A38 at Selly Oak, or heads north through Quinton to M5 J3. Then the shake arrives. Barnes Hill and Shenley Lane are steep and pitted, and a pothole there can knock a weight free, while estate kerbs catch alloys when drivers pull in beside the grass verges.
A rebalance belongs with every new tyre, every internal plug-patch repair on the estate, and every wheel that has lost a weight or taken a kerb strike. Queen Elizabeth Hospital staff driving home from a shift may feel it first as a hum in the seat, which usually points to a rear wheel; a trembling steering wheel implicates the front. Tread wearing in uneven patches is another sign worth mentioning when you call.
Tarmac driveways and wide kerbs across the estate, Gregory Avenue and Alwold Road included, or the little car park by Weoley Castle Square outside busy times. Never the grass verges, which are soft under a jack.
| Near | Weoley Castle ruins, Weoley Castle Square, Woodgate Valley Country Park (border) |
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| Typical arrival | A long run from London: allow 2 to 3 hours |
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On your Weoley Castle drive, the car is raised and the affected wheels come off in turn. Each is clamped to the van's balancer, spun, and given the weights the machine asks for, then refitted and torqued. What balancing cannot do is correct a car that drifts to one side or wears away the inner edge of a tyre. That is alignment, a garage job we do not do.
Shake on the A38 from Weoley Castle? Wheels balanced on your B29 drive.
