Having the hardest time balancing my duratrac 315's. Bought 5 in July. Balanced 3 times: 1st at tire shop with equal - terrible balance. 2nd equal out and sticky weight balance done - better but still shake shake. 3rd at professional shop with road force balance machine - shop says unable to balance as the tires are defective, meaning it took a ridiculous amount of weight to balance the tires and they still were unable to do a correct balance. Shop seems to know there stuff and say the rims are true with no issues, is is purely a tire defect on all five tires with tread lay up. Any tire guys who can chime in here. I'm frustrated to say the least. Sent email to Goodyear and going to call when I can. Other suggestions or thoughts????

 

Where did you buy them from? That's the best place to start.

Can't say I've ever heard of the Duratracs have an issue. If all five are bad, then likely a whole lot were bad. GY would definitely know about it.

Can you borrow a wheel from someone and test one of the tires on it? Would be ideal to prove it is the tires and not the wheels.

 

Is there a warranty against manufacturer defects? Check with your dealer.

I had a Toyo Open Country MT which took 15oz of weight to balance when new. I contacted the dealer who sent a new one from across the country at no charge and even paid to ship the old one back.

 

I have DT's no issues. Try a Goodyear dealer to see if they can do it. If not have them contact a regional rep. Have your receipts ready. I used to work for a goodyear dealer.

 

These are Goodyears, just like Michelins, they are a prime tire, hence why they cost more. As suggested, go to a Goodyear shop and share your experience. Heck, get them to try to balance them and come to the conclusion that the tires are bad.

 

I'm in triplets shoes. I feel like the shop with enough weight has come close to balancing the tires but we are talking like 30 oz of weight on couple of the rims. Which has gone out of balance since then (and now I know what it should be like when they are close to being balanced). At one point the shop even started stacking weights on top of weights. Even if they could balance them I'm not sure this is a "legit" balance. Really it comes down to me just wanting round tires. Circles are suppose to be round right? The rims are definitely good per a couple shops. Atx ravines. These are 34" tires if that wtf! Should not be this hard from a "premium" tire.

 

You bought the tires somewhere. Take/send them back there.

 

Yeah this is what's happening. Bought them at a town fair tire. Feel like they are going to try and given me the bullshit balance run around. Already told me there machines do exactly what a road force balance machine does which I'm pretty sure is bull but what do I know. Let u guys know how it goes and if this is in fact a bad lot issue. Thanks to all as always.

 

I have GY MTR's not Duratracs, but 2 of the 5 tires were so out-of-round they couldn't be balanced properly and I had a slight wobble at 45-50 mph. It wasn't until I had them road force balanced that it was revealed that they were defective. Fortunately, I had the Discount Tire warranty so I had them both replaced and now the tires ride great with no wobble or shimmy.

 

It's the wheels. You are the third guy with this prob. I have had it and someone else has too. I have these wheels and they don't balance on these duratracs very well. I think the wheels are cheap. It's funny, you would think the opposite since they make them when you order them. I took it to get it road force balanced and it works for me.


Not the tires, the atx ravines.