Winter tires and car wash

Last night before bed, I had two thoughts. Two sets of wheels (summer and winter) are hell. Because if you only have tires, you go to a tire shop after the season, they change them and balance them properly each season. But if you have intact wheels on site, you change them yourself and that's the end of it—changed them, and that's it. And then it turns out that your last balancing was four seasons ago (when you bought winter tires), a lot of the weights fell off, and so on. Sure, you can't feel anything in the steering wheel, but that doesn't mean everything is fine.

That is why I will sell my 16″ wheels with winter tires (they are after 4 seasons, but the tread is still 6-7mm - another season or two will fly) and buy a set of winter tires for 17-inch white wheels. And every season I will change at the tire fitting. Maybe it will be a little more expensive, but thanks to this, I will always have well-balanced wheels.

Of course, after each turn of the wheel on the site, I can go to the tire shop for balancing, but I do not. And if he did, then I get tired of changing it myself - if he then has to remove the wheels from me and load them, then let him transfer the rubber. It seems there is a savings in the presence of 2 sets of wheels, but I don’t know if this makes sense, or if it doesn’t fit with light picking: “Dude, I change the wheels myself, this is savings. Which? When was the last time I balanced? 4 years ago when I bought tires. Then they put them on these discs and immediately balanced them, since then I haven’t seen a rubber man - and it’s still perfect, without beating, believe me, everything is OK, good balancing and enough for 10 years! »

I've watched a lot of videos and read a lot about amateur, regular (non-detailed) car washes, and I've come to the conclusion that automatic car washes are the least harmful to paintwork. Because a touchless car wash doesn't hold anything, and if you use a brush in a bucket, you can just sand it. Washing by hand with two buckets is fun, but only in the summer, and if you're an amateur, you'll scratch it—because the sponge isn't up to par, because the microfiber isn't up to par (the only one you can buy for 1,000 rubles is from the kitchen department at Metro), because the water is in buckets, and so on.

And such a car wash, as long as it is not rough and old as the world, it will cause the least harm. By the way - one of the videos about it: