Heffernan & Associates, Inc. - Tire Services

Specialty Tire Services for the Discerning Enthusiast

We now offer premium tire services for the discerning enthusiast... Stemming from an engineering background studying tire and vehicle dynamics and motivated by an OCD driven desire to find a higher quality service.

Quite simply, we are tire fanatics.

If you are someone who looks forward to selecting a new set of tires,
we understand.

If you can feel the difference in a new set of tires before you leave the parking lot,
we can relate.

If it makes you nervous to let someone work on your wheels and tires,
we're by your side.

 

We can help, if:

  • You have any specialized requests
  • You're tired of the standard tire shop experience and demand extreme skill and care
  • You're underwhelmed with your previous tire recommendations or technical consultations

We can happily provide tire recommendations based on your application. Please see our questionnaire page here for further information.

Tire Services

We treat your vehicle like they are ours and do our absolute best to assure the highest quality services are provided.

We take a no-compromise approach to our services and the detail we put into our work.

  • Standard Mount and Balance
    • Includes: dismount, rim bead cleaning, mount, and standard dynamic precision balance. All are our high quality standard practices and 5 gram precision.

Specialty, Add-on Services:

  • Motorcycle Tire Mount and Balance
  • Rim Balance Measurement
    • Balance measurement of rim only; used for tire mounting if tires are so marked. Rim is marked with results and likely will not have to be repeated in the future.
  • Rim Run-out Measurement
    • Precision dial indicator measurement of the two bead surfaces; used for tire mounting if tires are so marked. Rim is marked with results and likely will not have to be repeated in the future.
  • High Precision Balance
    • Wheel balance using 3M cut-to-length tape weights, with no rounding used on the machine or in the weight of the machine (where typical weights are 5 or 7gr (1/4oz. weights).
  • Force Balance
    • Tire & Rim balance matching technique for minimizing weights.
  • Split weight mount
    • Hides weights behind the spokes for visual appearance.

*Coming soon- precision manual laboratory-style balancer for high accuracy balancing of not only
car assemblies, but motorcycles, and just about anything you might want balanced!