Using that much weight to balance a wheel would be a real concern to me.
What wheels are these?
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What wheels are these?
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
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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.
I have a pic somewhere of the wheels on my buddies hotrod. It was a mess.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
I have a pic somewhere of the wheels on my buddies hotrod. It was a mess.
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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.
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.
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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.
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I am pretty sure mine look like hell, too.
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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.
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.
I am pretty sure mine look like hell, too.
Definitely get it checked out.
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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.