bolling

These wheels are on my 2000. I have seen lots of pictures with these wheels but what they are was not discussed. The tires are in back 305/30 ZR 20 and the fronts are 285/30 ZR 19

Bill Vett

c-5 Z0-6 "Motor Sport" I'm not 100% positive but I think that was what they were called

c4cruiser

Huge amount of wheel weights on there

bolling

I like them

bolling

I noticed that also. I think they could have turned the tire to get closer.

Vetteman Jack

Using that much weight to balance a wheel would be a real concern to me.

bolling

I agree, but it does run smooth. I will see if it can be improved.

66dts-v

The wheels I had on my C4 were similar only everything was black except the rim lip was polished.

Black 02

Holy wheel weights

66dts-v

A good wheel tech will use the tires unnatural balance to compensate for the wheels unnatural balance to limit the amount of weight to add. But you have to take it to someone who cares for that to happen.

I have a pic somewhere of the wheels on my buddies hotrod. It was a mess.

K-Spaz

My belief is that wheels and tires are pretty well balanced to start with. There should NEVER be that much weight on a wheel to balance it. If there is, the wheel is bent or there is something wrong with the tire. Drastically wrong. I'm not sure a tire could do that to a wheel.

I had a similar episode with a tire installer once where they had gobs of weights on my wheels. I demanded they take the car back in and rebalance them. They said if they did I'd have to pay for a rebalance. I said I'll pay if the wheels are right, and YOU are paying if they are wrong because they are wrong. Went back to the machine and low and behold, they were off another mile. Showed the guy how they had the wrong center on the machine for my wheels. Changed that, rebalanced the wheels and how about that, you can take the wheel off the machine, put it back on the machine and it's still in balance.

Never went back to that shop. Morons...

PS, 2 wheels needed no weights at all, 2 needed 1/8th oz.

ErikwithAK01

That is, for real, 3x as many weights as I have ever seen on one wheel, and probably just as many times more weights then my whole set on my car put together O_O I agree with K-spaz. I would never see triple digits with those wheels, there is clearly something wrong here, possibly dangerously.

Black 02

I agree. They need to dismount it, spin the tire some and try again. I would be embarrassed to give a wheel and tire like that back to a customer.

grantv

Ditto, no way even if the worst part of both the tire and wheel were offset the same that it should end up that far off. IMO something is wrong with either the wheel or tire (or both, but I'm betting the wheel). I'd get that fixed before remotely considering anything approaching a high speed, maybe just me (actually, I'd get it fixed regardless, no way I'd leave my car that way).

bolling

I just purchased car and it was like that but I will be taking to my local tire shop and see what they can do. I really like the car, my first C5.

Black 02

It should be an easy fix for them. Congrats on the C5, any more photos of it?

66dts-v

It's not a huge deal as long as it is balanced, but it looks like hell. Best practice is to use one to balance the other as much as possible and use as few weights as possible. But most shops just toss a tire on and call it a day.

I am pretty sure mine look like hell, too.

bolling

I only have a couple so far, wife took with phone when I was picking her up.

K-Spaz

Car looks good man, congrats on it. Many smiles ahead.

Well actually, the worst case scenario is that it IS balanced. Because that means something is wrong with the wheel. My bet is it was balanced at a shop by some idiot and it's way out of balance like mine would have been. My car woulda hopped down the road if I'd driven out of there the way they had it.

Definitely get it checked out.

bolling

I removed wheel and took it to local shop that has been in business for years and all they do is wheels and alignment. They put it on their balancer and said it checked out. When I asked about the amount of weights they said it was not out of line with aftermarket wide 20" wheels and tires. I went on line and the rule of thumb is 1% of the total weight in which it is within that so as long as it runs smooth I won't worry about it.