Balancing with BBs

For many years I have had the auto shop balance my tires. Today I want to try something different. I have heard about some companies making beads that you put into your tire and they will dynamically balance your tires on the fly. Where I live it is a little hard to find these things, so I am going to try to use some air rifle BB's. This is strictly an experiment to see what it will do. In this video I am going to show you how I get them into the tires and I will watch them for a year or so and see how they last. UPDATE: I took the tires off the car (2009 Kia Rio5) after the first winter and opened one side of one tire. As far as I can see there is absolutely no wear inside the tire from the beads, and as expected there is no marks on the tire valve as it is on the rim, and the beads themselves have a bit of dust on them but there are no broken pieces anywhere, so I guess it works well for these tires. I reseated the tire and put all four away again for the summer.