How many wheel weights do you have?

[daaaaaan]

I have no knowledge about road force balancing, but I do know that you can check your wheels for being true yourself.

You will need to rig up a stylus that you can position next to the wheel (not tire) as you spin it with that corner of the truck jacked up. (My dad used to do this yearly, and that was a good 50 years ago. This is not rocket surgery.) The stylus needs to be positioned four times per wheel:
- Outside rim vertical deflection
- Outside rim side-to-side deflection
- Inside rim vertical deflection
- Inside rim side-to-side deflection
This is just a visual inspection aided by the fixed point provided by the stylus. A pencil resting on a concrete block will do fine.

It's frustrating paying almost 70K on a truck, and having to do this. I'm gunna ask dealer to pull tires off the wheels, and test if they are bent via balancer. It's such a subtle vibration, that I doubt i'll visually be able to see the bend.

 

[oxfordraptor]

Zero...Bead balance FTMFW

 

[dewalt]

I've been lead free for 20 years. Don't like powders and sand, as valve cores may get a mouth full when checking pressure

 

[Ruger]

It's frustrating paying almost 70K on a truck, and having to do this. I'm gunna ask dealer to pull tires off the wheels, and test if they are bent via balancer. It's such a subtle vibration, that I doubt i'll visually be able to see the bend.

If you have a wheel that is subtly bent, spinning it at balancer speed will not reveal it. A subtle bend will just be a blur. The visual examination I described is done a couple inches at a time. You go back and forth, back and forth looking for a deviation in the rim that may be only 1/16 of an inch or less. If you have a bend in a wheel that subtle, I think you will probably have to find it yourself.

 

[BajaFred]

I was told the road force would tell me If I had a bent wheel?

Just trying to think how the dealer can confirm

The Hunter RF machine can tell you if the wheel is out of round, although I don't know if it just tells you automatically or the tech has to run a separate check for it - seems like it should be an automated part of the process ie I can't start to RF this wheel since it is too out of round

 

[dewalt]

I have had rims checked before. Load up onto balancer and hand spin. You can see a wobble at hand speed spin.