CounteractDIYK-10 Do It Yourself Tire/Wheel Balancing Beads Kit - Off -Road, Medium/Heavy Duty Truck Tires, (4) 10oz DIY Bead Bags, (4) Valve Caps and Cores, (1) Core Remover, Injector Bottle

The only reason for 4 stars was due to the valve cores and caps not in the box. The beads and bottle applicator were in the box. Otherwise everything was great

I bought them in 4oz bags for convenience but will likely buy in bulk and get a small scale. Bulk is much cheaper and I can store them with my injection tool. If you only use them once then no need for the tool, you can just use the squeeze bottle. The tool is great for large quantity injection.

I found the beads went in better when the stem was at the 9 o'clock position rather than 6 or 8. Be sure to keep constant pressure on the hose at the bottle tip so it does not come loose.

Great product, easy to use and saves you a trip to the tire shop. Be careful to not over tighten the valve stem inserts.

I used this for my small trailer. Easy to install and works fine.

These will work great if you don't have TPMS sensors. The hole is to small to get the beads in. I have used these on normal valve stems with the larger hole. They work fine. The problem I have is the site saying that it will work with TPMS sensors. The only way this will work is to brake the tire bead and put them in that way.

Used these when I changed tires on my GMC Envoy since I don't have a tire balancer. Very happy with the results.

I am not a professional mechanic, but I do have a tire machine and balancer at my house, so take it for that. I run 37s' on my Superduty. I needed new tires... I have heard of these beads but have never used them. I actually dredded this job. 37" tires are hard to dismount, hard to remount, hard to lift... hard to put back on the truck, nothing fun about working with them. I talked to a few people and decided this is the way to go for big tire. I mean I could have thrown my back out putting these tires on my spin balancer... but I didn't want to. So I dismounted my old tires and to my surprise there were beads in the tire. Actually one of the tires didn't have the bag broken... so I made sure that wasn't going to be me. I opened and dumped the bag into the tire while I had the bead broken. I set the beads and mounted the tires... took her for a spin... no weird vibrations @ 40 (in the dark in the rain). I will see how the do at highway speeds, but I am confident they will work. So how do they work?Cut an imaginary disk out of "rubber", like a frisbee... now hold that disk right in the center and spin it about your fingers, like a pizza or something... it runs smooth because it's symmetrical and you are holding it in the center. Now imagine there is a rock on the outside rim of the disk and when spinning that disk it wobbles because the rock takes the disk out of balance. But we have magic beads... how do the beads know where to go to counteract the rock? How do they know where to go??? I imagine the rock pulls the disk outward... this is like the waiter and tablecloth trick... The rock is pulling the table cloth away from the table... where are the beads going to go? directly across from the direction of pull... so there is weight opposite of the rock and it counteracts the force. correct me if I am wrong.... I think this is how they work.

I have used this brand of balance beads now for around 8000 km on my GS. As I'm using 70/30 tires, the ride is not baby's bum smooth ever. My testimony would therefore centre on wear pattern and longevity. Getting 8k out of a Shinko rear is pretty reasonable. My bike HAS TPI built in, and it was unaffected. However, the BMW TPI device has a rather small hole for the air/beads to squeeze through. This makes it a bit painstaking to install the beads.I tip in about an inch of beads to the supplied clear tube, then use the blower end on my compressor to coax the beads in, using short, gentle puffs of air. It's a bit repetitious... have a seat, enjoy a beer.My latest tires are Heidenau Rangers, and with the beads from day one they are surprisingly smooth for so chunky a tire!

I bought the 8 oz kit to help balance 1/2 worn duratracs a few years ago. Kit fixed the balance issue perfectly. I just installed new cooper SST pro's in 275/70 R18 size and had the tire shop add the 10oz bead kit to the tires. I've been driving on these tires about 5 days now and they are not balancing the tires at all. I bought the beads to keep big mud tires balanced over their life, but now I will be paying more $$ to figure out how to balance them.

Works great on 35” tires on my old truck. A huge frustrating pain in the ass to install using the squeeze bottle. No matter what you do, the beads get stuck going into the valve stem. I ended up putting a small hole in the side of the bottle and using an airline to feed the beads in. Just hold a little bit of pressure on it and gradually tilt the beads toward the opening and they go right in in under a minute

If I recall it said you could install it through a tea PMS sensor but when I read the instructions it said not to do that.So that would mean I would have to break the bead of the tire from the rim to install these Lots of work not what I wanted to do so I ended up returning these

If you haven’t tried balance beads in your motorcycle tires yet I recommend you do.And this brand is excellent! The kit comes with everything you’ll need to convert from wheel weights to balance beads.Balance beads worked very well in my last set of tires and I had excellent tire life. New set of tires now and instead of reusing the old beads in the tire I opted to go new.You won’t be disappointed.