BBQ

how much tire balancing weight is too much?

leadfoot4

IMHO, anything more than 3-4 ounces, and you have a potentially bad wheel or tire.

rfn026

This is a really tough one. Is the tire bad, or is the wheel bad? How much weight is too much weight. Some of the truck tires take a ton of weight yet are still decent tires. Minis take very little weight.

Certain brands of tires seem to take more weight than other brands. Then a tire can be perfectly balance yet still vibrate because of wheel force variation.

Find a shop that has a Hunter GPS9700 machine and ask them to check the balance with their machine. These machine place 1,400 lbs of force against the wheel and tire. This measure the combined uniformity of the wheel and tire. You would be surprised how many tires/wheels are out of uniformity.

You can only balance a tire if it's uniform. The Hunter machine calculates if the tire/wheel combination is liable to create a potential vibration problem.

Tire Rack has a great explanation of all this.

Richard Newton

Wheel and Tire Performance Handbook

Corvette C5 Performance Projects: 1997-2004

BBQ

well, I just picked up new goodyear G3's for the rear. One of them balanced out using 6 ounces. I thought that might be a little much.

WELEPRO

6 ounces MAY be a bit much, but using a road force balancer like the Hunter mentioned above may be able to lower the amount of weight being used by "match mounting" the tire to the wheel. I'd give that a shot first.

Otherwise, excessive wheel weight is an adjustable condition(waranty), and any authorized Goodyear dealer can take care of that for you.

Let me know if you have any questions-

Erik

rustyguns

did you ask the installer if he tried to break the bead lose and rotate the tire 90 degrees and remount and balance it? i have seen where you have to do this up to three times to get weight down to 4 or less ounces.

did he split the weights up on the rim like a foot apart? or stack them in one place?

G/L

BBQ

5.5 ounces are all together

rustyguns

seems high

try asking the guys at tirerack.com