Balancing the tires

[canadianbattery]

My X3 wheels are really dirty and i have to clean it once a few days.
I just finished detailing the car body and thinking take out all four rims to clean it entirely.
My question is, do I need to do the balance after i unmount my tire??
or is it just plug and go process?

[echelon153]

I'm assuming that you will only take the wheel off to clean and not "unmount the tire" off the rim. You shouldn't need to balance them. I would suggest rotating them and maybe balance every 6-8K mi. It would also be ideal to have the proper torque on those lugs.

[motordavid]

If you wanna be obsessive, you might mark the hub&wheel w/ marker, noting
wheel position on that hub, and replace wheel back in same "clock position",
but I suspect the wheels were not fine balanced "on the car", so it may be overkill.

I'd pass on the "tire rotation" suggested; at most, a side to side, but even
that is really debatable,imo.

Be sure to torque smoothly, to 101 ft lbs or 140 Nm; X discs warp if you
look at them wrong, which lead to shimmies, which leads to...
GL,md

[canadianbattery]

I'm assuming that you will only take the wheel off to clean and not "unmount the tire" off the rim. You shouldn't need to balance them. I would suggest rotating them and maybe balance every 6-8K mi. It would also be ideal to have the proper torque on those lugs.

yea.. just take off the wheel and clean it entirely. So, I think I can just take off, clean and put back. thats it.. right?

[JG]

My X3 wheels are really dirty and i have to clean it once a few days.
I just finished detailing the car body and thinking take out all four rims to clean it entirely.
My question is, do I need to do the balance after i unmount my tire??
or is it just plug and go process?

I thought (memory issues :angel: ) I read somewhere in Bimmerfest that BMW recommended to NOT rotate the tires on X3's...............