Jeffrey Behr

Indeed.

Aronis

I called the dealer. They use Craftsman tools and a couple pry bars to change tires. The specialist is Goober and some times the local Sheriff, Andy, helps out.

This dealership is HUGE. Multiple car types. In Cicero New York, Driver's Village. I am sure they have the correct equipment to change a tire.


Mike

Optical TDI

A shop can have Hunter equipment, but not all of their balancers have the Road Force feature, I do believe. Had mine done recently on Hunter equipment with no road force using Tire Rack’s mobile service (all brand new mobile Hunter equipment done in your driveway). It was great!

edub

https://www.hunter.com/find-equipment/ is what I've used in the past. No surprise, Porsche and similar brands show up often having quality equipment.

Zhao

Having a Road Force balancer is one thing. Having a tech that moves the tire to where it's optimal is another thing. Most dealerships around me have them but I would suspect a lot don't bother unless it's out significantly.

I can figure out roughly where a tire should be with a crappy balancer just off the weight and eyeballing if the tire or rim is an oval, but I never bother doing that on my own stuff. I'll do that if a friend is **** but otherwise I don't do it. It's a lot of extra work to rotate a tire and usually the difference is so minor it probably won't even affect the weight needed to balance it by a oz. A good tire with a rim that isn't bent will often require less than 1oz to balance and will be very close to round to the point where moving it around will not do too much. Tires that wear funny or are tracked with less than ideal camber will be often out of balance by that much when they're about to get replaced. You probably can't even tell 0.5oz out in the steering wheel, I know I can't. Cheaper tires (which have a higher chance of being less round) or the odd good brand name tire that for whatever reason it's an oval it does matter though. I moved tires around on a friends car that were quite out to lunch and it changed the weight required on at least one of his rims from requiring like 2.5oz down to like .75oz which is pretty significant. Road force is really nice cuz it takes the guess work out, but there are techs that regardless of having a road force balancer are rotating the tire on the rim to optimize it based off experienced guesswork.