Do I Need To Mount AND Balance My Trailer Tire And Wheel Assembly?

We often get questions on whether trailer tires need to be mounted AND balanced when being put on a wheel.

Typically trailer tire assemblies are not balanced out of the factory. If you balance your trailer tires and then pull the trailer unloaded for some distance, the trailer will tend to bounce due to the light load and more often then not, throw the weights from the wheels.  Every time this occurs, the assembly would need to be ‘re-balanced’.

Along with this, tandem axle trailers tend to throw weights when backing sharply due to the stress put on the mounted assembly, so it becomes almost impossible to keep up with balancing your trailer tire assemblies.

Most people do not feel a difference between balanced trailer tires and non balanced tires.  More often than not, the majority of people do not balance their assemblies, but it is left up to the preference of the owner of the trailer.

Our Tire and Wheel Assemblies at RecStuff.com are mounted but not balanced when they ship out of our factory.

Please feel free to contact us with any comments, suggestions, or questions.