"stryped" wrote in message
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On Friday, June 20, 2014 12:24:26 PM UTC-5, Doug Miller wrote:
stryped wrote in

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http://owensboro.craigslist.org/tls/4524860669.html

As I have posted before, thought about purchasing one for my
home shop to be able to balance tires on my 3 cars. I guess this
is a China unit but I don't know.

THINK about it for just a minute, stryped. I know that may be
something of a foreign concept
for you, but try it, just this once.
How much does a tire shop charge to balance a wheel? Ten bucks? I
heard Walmart does
it for eight.
And how often do you need wheels balanced? Once every 2-3 years? If
you're maintaining
three cars, that means on average four wheels per year, at $10
each. That's $40 per year,
tops.
Divided into the $600 you're going to spend on the balancer, plus
probably another $50 in
weights, means it will take you AT LEAST SIXTEEN YEARS to recover
the cost.
Sounds like a stupid idea to me.
Or a stryped idea.
Not that there seems to be a lot of difference...

I just like the idea of being able to mail order tires and change
them myself. I already have a manual tire changer.
And I think I could do it better than anyone else. No body seems to
even pay attention to the balancing marks on new tires. My wife's
car has huge weights on it because of it....
And I don't think I want Wal Mart doing anything on my vehicle. At
least the one around here...

I'd buy four jackstands so I could pull all the wheels to make one
trip, and ask around for a better tire shop.

I've found that the shop's attitude follows the customer's attitude
and willingness to listen.
-jsw