How often should you do wheel alignment and balancing?

After driving a new car for 3 months, it will be once every six months or 10,000 kilometers in the future.

Four-wheel alignment is based on the vehicle's four-wheel parameters, which are adjusted to ensure good driving performance and certain reliability.

The installation between the steering wheel, the steering knuckle and the front axle of the car has a certain relative position, and the installation with a certain relative position is called steering wheel alignment, also known as front wheel alignment. The front wheel alignment includes four contents: kingpin camber (angle), kingpin camber (angle), front wheel camber (angle) and front wheel toe. This is the relative position of the two steering front wheels and the rear axle for the two rear wheels, which is called rear wheel alignment.

Rear wheel alignment includes wheel camber (angle) and rear-wheel toe-in by rear. In this way, the front wheel alignment and the rear wheel alignment are collectively called four-wheel alignment.

Generally, there is abnormal wear and tear of the tire, commonly known as eating or gnawing the tire. There is also a deviation in the direction or a wrong steering wheel when driving. When the above failures occur, they are all because the data of the four-wheel alignment is incorrect.

In addition, the steering related parts have been replaced. Such as steering machine assembly, shock absorption, sheep's horn. At this time, you need to do the next four wheel alignment.

1.The steering wheel is not correct when the vehicle is driving in a straight line on a flat road2When the vehicle is driving in a straight line on a flat road, it will slide left or right3Abnormal tire wear and serious tire eating phenomenon 4The steering wheel will shake from side to side5There may be floating when driving.

As of February 2020, the cost of different stores is different, the four-wheel alignment is generally 60 100 yuan, and the dynamic balance is 10 20 yuan per wheel.

Every 8,000 to 10,000 kilometers traveled, four rounds of rotation are carried out. For the method of transposition, please refer to the user manual. The purpose of the transposition is to make the wear more even. At the same time as the four-wheel rotation, the four-wheel alignment check can be carried out to avoid the vehicle from mistracking.

Avoid wheel alignment failures:

1. Drive slowly on the uneven road surface, remember not to accelerate and rush, the violent vibration will inevitably affect the four-wheel alignment of the vehicle.

2. Try to avoid the impact of external forces on the front wheels of the car, such as driving quickly through pits and rushing up to sidewalk steps.

3. When parking on the side, avoid using the wheels to contact the curbs, sometimes the wheels have touched the curbs, but the owner still hits the direction, which can easily lead to problems with the four-wheel alignment.

Based on the market as of July 1, 2021**,The car four-wheel alignment is in the range of 100-400 yuan, and the charge for doing a dynamic balance is basically about 50-200 yuan for a tire.

It is recommended that the wheel alignment should be done in the 4S store, because the 4S store has the original technical standard parameter value, which is more professional and the data is more accurate. And some brand tire service shops or small auto repair shops can also do four-wheel alignment, which will be relatively cheaper, generally around 100 yuan. In general, no matter what you choose to do, you must choose a regular and professional store for four-wheel alignment.

Under normal circumstances, it takes about 30 minutes to do a dynamic balance, and the dynamic balancing machine is very fast to find out the unbalance point, the key is that the link of increasing or decreasing the counterweight is more time-consuming, but this link is also more critical.

There are a few points that you can pay attention to when doing wheel dynamic balancing:

1. When doing dynamic balancing of old tires, we must pay attention to whether the mechanic completely removes the lead inside or at the edge of the rim, and whether the soil in the rim or the stones on the tire are completely removed, which directly affects the effect of dynamic balancing.

2. When replacing new tires for dynamic balancing, pay attention to not too much lubricating material on the side of the tires when replacing new tires, otherwise the tires are easy to be misaligned with the rim after assembly, resulting in dynamic imbalance.

3. There are many factors that affect the dynamic balance, even if the valve on the tire has a great impact on the dynamic balance of the tire, so the material of the valve is from the steel valve to the aluminum valve to the rubber valve, which reduces the cost and ensures the dynamic balance of the wheel.

Four-wheel alignment is 60 100 yuan, and the dynamic balance is 10 20 yuan a wheel. Dynamic balancing is to make the mass distribution of the tire more balanced and make it rotate more smoothly, as long as the tire is "moved", it needs to be done; The four-wheel alignment is to adjust the angle coefficient between the chassis system of the vehicle, which is a means of maintenance, and the car can not be done if there is no problem.

Do balance situation.

1. Replace the tires.

After replacing the new tires, be sure to remove all the original balance weights on the rim and redo the tire dynamic balancing.

2. After repairing the tire.

Patching the tire will patch or mushroom nails the tire, causing the tire to lose its original balance and need to be rebalanced. If there is no tire balancer at the tire repair point, you need to find a professional repair shop nearby to do tire dynamic balancing.

3. Rim damage.

An accident hitting a wheel may cause the rim to lose its roundness, and the tire dynamic balance must be done to determine whether the rim needs to be replaced.

4. Install tire pressure detection.

Tire pressure monitoring generally requires the addition of a tire pressure sensor to the valve or inside the tire, which will also destroy the original balance of the tire, and the tire dynamic balance needs to be redone.

As of June 2021, ** is around 200-500 yuan.

Under normal circumstances, the car four-wheel alignment is in the range of 100 to 300 yuan, and if the car belongs to the luxury car level, it may be more expensive to do positioning. To do tire positioning, it is best to go to the 4S store, because the 4S store has the original technical standard parameter value, which is more professional.

It takes about 30 minutes to do a dynamic balance, and the dynamic balancing machine is very fast to find out the unbalance point, the key is to increase and decrease the counterweight This link is more time-consuming, but this link is also more critical. The dynamic balance of the car is also very cheap, generally 20-40 yuan is enough, if it is to replace the tire, the general repair shop can also do the dynamic balance for free.

Precautions for car wheel alignment.

1. When using the instrument to do four-wheel alignment, it is necessary to pay attention to confirm whether the positioning instrument of the maintenance plant is qualified.

2. When carrying out four-wheel alignment maintenance, it is necessary to confirm whether the car data used by the maintenance personnel is accurate. Cars are updated day by day, and the data is also being updated, so it is best to bring an instruction manual with you when aligning the four wheels, as it contains accurate data about the vehicle.

3. After the car is positioned, you need to check the printed data to determine whether the camber angle of the front wheel is within the standard range.

4. The chassis of SUVs, pickup trucks and small buses is equipped with torsion bar springs, which will cause inconsistencies in the height of the left and right vehicles after a long period of use, and the torsion bar needs to be adjusted to reach the standard value.

Generally, there is abnormal wear and tear of the tire, commonly known as eating or gnawing the tire. There is also a deviation in the direction or a wrong steering wheel when driving. When the above failures occur, they are all because the data of the four-wheel alignment is incorrect.

In addition, the steering related parts have been replaced. Such as steering machine assembly, shock absorption, sheep's horn. At this time, you need to do the next four wheel alignment.

Volkswagen stipulates that the general new car is half a year or 5000 kilometers of maintenance and testing, and then 15000 kilometers of maintenance and testing, and then it is recommended to do a test once a year, to the Volkswagen 4S store, and then decide whether to do four-wheel alignment after testing.

I'm from Volkswagen 4S store.

If you do a cheap four-wheel alignment** under 100 yuan, it is regular but very expensive to do in the Volkswagen 4S store.

Hello, this is divided into models and regions, the dynamic balance is generally about 20 wheels, and the four-wheel alignment is about 60 to more than 100.

Hello, go outside to make a four-wheel aligner, about 100 yuan, is dynamic balance, a ten to twenty yuan or so.

This depends on the specific store to see. Now in some stores, when changing tires, the dynamic balance is included.

Four-wheel alignment is generally the vehicle deviation fault and abnormal tire wear to do four-wheel alignment.

Because of these two faults, it means that the data of the four-wheel alignment is incorrect.

Tire dynamic balancing means that the vehicle has a high-speed driving body shake or steering wheel shake, and the tire dynamic balance needs to be done.

It is also necessary to do the dynamic balancing of the tires after each tire change.

The difference between dynamic balancing and wheel alignment is as follows. 1. The dynamic balance adjusts the uniform weight of the four wheels, and the suspension parameters are adjusted for the four-wheel alignment.

2. To do dynamic balancing, you only need to remove the wheels, and to do four-wheel alignment, you need to erect a whole car.

3. Dynamic balancing generally needs to be done once every 3-6 months, and four-wheel alignment does not need to be done without any problems.

Balancing and wheel alignment do not need to be done togetherThe key to dynamic balance is to solve the problems of tire driving trembling and vibration for the rotational balance of a single wheel; Four-wheel alignment is to adjust the inclination angle of the four wheels to ensure the normal running trajectory and avoid deviation and "tire eating".

Therefore, we can choose whether to do it together according to our own different needs, one piece has the advantage of doing one, and there is also the advantage of doing it separately, and we need to judge whether we need to do it together according to the specific condition of the vehicle.

The wheel is composed of two parts, the tire and the hub, but because of the valve and the restriction of the mushroom nail and tire repair rubber after the tire repair, the overall quality of the wheel cannot reach a completely similar effect, therefore, at this time, we need the dynamic balance of the car to maintain the overall balance of the wheel. The dynamic balance of the car is still more important for a car than the same period last year.

If you compare the wheels to the feet of the car, the suspension system can be said to be the feet of the car. When the car leaves the factory, the wheels, steering mechanism, and front and rear axles basically have a fixed position and angle. At this time, we need the car to have four-wheel alignment, and the vital importance of four-wheel alignment and dynamic balance are generally the same, and both are indispensable.