[urq] Road Force Balancer

[John Cody Forbes]

Road Force balancers are common. Pretty much every company that makes a balancer makes a road force, but Hunter is the most popular. I've been using them for 5 or 6 years now at the past few places I've worked.

Customers should never be, and extremely rarely are, allowed in to a shop. The liability is huge. One customer wearing his flat bottomed loafers slips in a drop of oil and BAM the livelihood of everybody that works in that building is down the drain. A windowed viewing area should be all that you can hope for.

-Cody (mobile)

On Jan 25, 2011, at 6:18 PM, "Max Hoepli" <mhoepli at vif.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> For the first time a road force balancer was used on one of my rims was
> cleaned due to oxidation and refitted with the tire and balanced.
> 
> Anyone have experience with this type of machine? Who are the manufacturers
> of road force balancers? And $$$.
> 
> Automotive Import Market on Denison in Markham, Ontario claims to be the
> first shop in Canada to have such a balancer. I found the shop through Tire
> Rack. I didn't like the part that the car has to be driven to the back to
> the garage and clients are not allowed to be in the shop. Clients can wait
> in the large waiting room-rim/tire display centre.
> 
> Max 
> 
> 
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