Hunter SmartWeight™ Technology Establishes a New Era of Wheel Balancing

Hunter Engineering’s patented SmartWeight balancing technology is a revolutionary wheel balancing method that minimizes correction weight usage and maximizes productivity, saving money on both material and labor costs. This new method computes correction weights by measuring and evaluating the “absolute” or pure static (shake) and couple (shimmy) forces that cause vibration. Unlike traditional balancing, which judges balance conditions based on correction weight values, SmartWeight balancing uses the actual static and couple forces to directly address the source of vibration problems, resulting in the best possible balance.

A tire shop can use thousands of dollars of wheel weights per balancer every year and many shops have several balancers. SmartWeight balancing technology can reduce these wheel weight costs 33% or more and reduces the time it takes to balance most wheels - all without sacrificing balance or ride quality!

Using SmartWeight Technology the average shop can save up to 33% or more in wheel weight costs per year!†

† Based on a field test of over 7000 tire-wheel assemblies, SmartWeight technology achieved weight savings of more than 20% when using clip weight modes, more than 30% when using clip-tape weight modes and more than 35% weight savings when using tape-tape weight modes.