I have a compressor setup at home with an in-line line conditioner which also adds some air-tool oil so that oiling the tools manually is not needed. A few weeks ago I added a little bit of air to each tire to bring them to the correct pressure. I completely forgot about the oiler and was wondering if it would've messed up balance, or maybe even make it easier for the tire to shift on the rim? The oiler setting was at it's lowest at the time - to the point where if I just spray the nozzle on my hand for 15 seconds I don't notice any oil at all.

Anyone hear of this ever being a problem? I'm in need of new tires anyway but I'd like to know for the future.

TIA!

 

As soon as I read your post, I thought of a product made for jeeps. A tube is attached somehow to the circumference of the rim. The aluminum tube contains a little sand. If the tire is unballanced, the sand in the tube will centrifugally move to the spot that is unballanced. Maybe this will happen with the minute amount of oil in your tire. As far as the tire loosing any grip with the rim, it's barely possible. The tire is so tight on the rim, it will be hard to let the oil seep in. If they can keep air in, I doubt they will let oil near their bead. LOL. I was just thinking of something. If that really happened. You would gas it, and the wheels would just be spinning inside the tire...! Hey. That's a good point. If they do sping. There's so much pressure at that point, eventually, the spinning tire will burn/dry the oil at the bead and the problem will be fixed.

Sorry for the long post. -Joel