If the rim buzzes in your hands along the A40 bypass and goes quiet again in Corn Street, a balance weight has probably gone; the balancing machine comes to Witney with the van.
Witney drivers meet this on the bypass. Between Shores Green and Downs Road the road runs straight and open, and that is where a slight imbalance turns into a steady tremble through the rim or the seat base. Town driving masks it completely. The causes are local enough: potholes on the B4022 out towards Hailey, the square kerbs at the Bridge Street roundabout, and the ramp edges at Marriotts Walk, any of which will knock a weight off an alloy.
The balancing machine in the van spins the wheel away from the car, reads where the heavy point sits, and the fitter adds a counterweight on the far side of the rim until the reading settles. None of that needs a workshop pit or a ramp. Your car stays on the Cogges or Deer Park kerb where you left it. Say how many wheels are involved and quote the tyre size, and the cost is fixed by phone.
Kerbside on the Smiths Estate, Madley Park and Newland is fine, since none of it is controlled parking. The Woolgate surface car park and the Windrush Leisure Centre bays suit the van, while the Marriotts Walk upper decks are too low for it.
| Near | Marriotts Walk shopping centre, Woolgate Centre, Witney Community Hospital |
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| Typical arrival | Around 2 hours, confirmed before we set off |
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Fresh rubber is always balanced as it goes on, and a wheel is worth rechecking after a puncture is patched, since the repair itself sits as extra weight inside the casing. Older alloys shed adhesive weights over a winter of Witney potholes. The one thing balancing will not cure is a car that wanders or wears a single tread edge, and that is alignment, work no mobile fitter here takes on.
Vibration on the Witney bypass? Call with your OX28 address and tyre size.
