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Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 24/7/2012What some people fail to realise is that a severe out of balance tyre can cause destruction throughout the interior and exterior parts of a caravan. When you apply a jack hammer to concrete the vibration breaks up the concrete into fragments so having an unbalanced tyre can do exactly the same process by constant vibration. If concrete can be broken up so easily then think what effect the vibration will have on a timber construction fitted toegether with small screws etc. People can constantly debate this issue for and against but hey! who cares, I have mine balanced so you either take the advice or ignore it, the choice is yours at the end of the day.

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I would love for one of the clubs to take up the baton and do exhaustive testing with balance and out of balance wheels on the all surface test tracks they used by caravan manufactuers. If they did this on both single and twin axles at varying speeds and put test equipment in the caravan we should have the answer.

If as some of us believe this could be one of the causes of internal / external / damage to caravan and one of the possible reasons wheels come off caravans, the club(s) could lobby the manufacturers to do something about it with some clout behind them with their stats.

This could hep prove it one way or another, thinking as I write this post, I am going to E mail both the CC and CC&C clubs to see if they would be prepared to do this on behlaf of all caravanners!