Importance of Wheel Alignment and Wheel Balancing?

For any car to run smoothly, wheel balancing and alignment needs to be done at regular intervals. This will make sure the tyres of the car stay in good health and the wear and tear of the tyres happen evenly.

Wheel Balancing
Wheel balancing refers to ensuring the correct balance between the weight of the wheel and the tyre. It is done along with wheel alignment so as to provide synchronization of the weight and alignment.
Wheel balancing involves taking off the four tyres and placing them on a computerized wheel balancer.
The wheel balancer individually tests the four wheels for weight imbalance and simulates specific irregularities for each wheel. Then such irregularities in weight are corrected by placing counterweights on the wheel rim on various spots recommended by the computer. Once this is done, the wheels are checked for imbalance again until perfect balancing is achieved.
Wheel balancing is important to ensure a smooth and stable drive, eliminating undesired vibrations, minimizing tyre wear as well as risk of wheel and suspension damage.

Wheel Alignment
Wheel alignment is the process of adjustment of a car’s suspension to ensure that the tyres make contact with the road at a suitable angle.
Such alignment can be disturbed due to having a sudden impact on the road, hitting a curb, sudden maneuvers due to emergency situations, or running into a pothole at high speed. If this happens, your car steering may feel unusually heavy on one side and it becomes difficult to drive the car straight (even if you try to drive the car straight, the car will keep running towards one side of the road). You may also experience heavy vibrations on the steering wheel as well as observe indented tread wear on the tyres.
Correcting the wheel alignment can help overcome and prevent the above issues.

During wheel alignment, the following three aspects are taken into consideration:

Caster Angle
Caster Angle is the angular displacement between the vertical axis of the wheels and the steering axis.
Ensuring the right balance between positive and negative caster angle can eliminate misalignment and ensure balance and stability while steering the car.

Camber Angle
Camber Angle correction refers to ensuring that the angular proportions between the vertical axis of the car and the vertical axis of the wheels when viewed from the front are accurately balanced.

Toe Angle

Toe Angle is the angle made by the tyres while moving inwards or outwards with the longitudinal axis of the car when viewed from the top.Wheel alignment is concerned with ensuring that all the above three angles are in sync to enable a safe
driving experience.

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