track tyre pickup - wheel ballance

[Meek_racing]

Should I always have the wheels ballanced after every track day and does it matter if there is still old rubber that hasn't come off?

I still have some old rubber pickup from my last track day and it doesn't want to budge. Is it ok to use a heat gun to remove the stuff?

Cheers,

Mike

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

Do you mean you have patches of little bits of rubber where the tyres got hot, moved and then cooled?

I Just drove them on road for couple days and it scrubbed off the excess bits mate.

 

[Bluebeard]

You want to use a heat gun on your tyres??

 

[Ian_s]

I just run them, never had a problem.

 

[jenic]

I used to just run on the road for a while and it soon got rid of all the excess rubber.

 

[Jamie86]

First few laps of the next trackday will do the job if you only use them on track..

 

[Meek_racing]

Not road legal and I don't want to thrape the car around on the road to get wrid of the rubber. Yeah the small rubber balls/patches that build up and cool down.

 

[Tony Hunter]

They will be gone after a couple of laps anyway.

 

[Fred@BTM]

i haven't balanced my track wheels in years