Wheel balancing weights

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

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Hi guys,

Had two new tyres fitted the other week and I've noticed the guy appears to have used all the tyre balancing weights in the known universe. Now, I've never had this many fitted to this wheel before (It's the same the other side).

This picture (Excuse the wheel covered in tyre fitting glue) shows them a bit - basically I've got 2 layers of weights for about 3-4 inches!

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Is this right?

Obviously it looks crap but frankly I can live with if it is isn't going to cause issues, I just cant help thinking that a wheel shouldnt have this many balancing weights on it.

Cheers!
 
yeah, my dealer did that when i got new tyres (he gets them at a good price, before anyone goes omgwtf dealer tyres)

i was surprised at the amount of weights and the fact it looks really manky, and he left the masking tape on top too..
 
Can see the picture now!

I've had weights put in a similar place before, looks horrid IMHO.

My friend works for ATS and he always tries to use the clip-type ones on the inside of the wheels, stick-ons look rubbish and have a tendancy to disappear after a few miles if the rim hasn't been cleaned properly before applying weights!
 
Crap job if you ask me. I had a similar thing when my car came back from having all 4 wheels done and still had a wheel wobble. I took it to my normal place, he laughed, took them all off and balanced it with a couple of weights. I am not an expert on this but it shouldnt take all those weights and in my case it didn't.
 
Housey said:
Crap job if you ask me. I had a similar thing when my car came back from having all 4 wheels done and still had a wheel wobble. I took it to my normal place, he laughed, took them all off and balanced it with a couple of weights. I am not an expert on this but it shouldnt take all those weights and in my case it didn't.
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but if fox doesn't have wheel wobble then it doesn't really matter does it?
if they're correctly balanced then all is well, just looks crap
 
mjt said:
but if fox doesn't have wheel wobble then it doesn't really matter does it?
if they're correctly balanced then all is well, just looks crap
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It doesn't matter from a balance perspective no, but it might from an asthetic perspective but as he said he can live with it. The question was "should it have all these weights on" and my view is no, not really.
 
i seem to have a few on my fronts too, i noticed a few weeks ago and once you spot it, you keep on spotting it :p
 
Looks like the tyre should have been spun on the rim and rebalanced really. Probably got the heavy spot on the rim and tyre lined up.
 
I noticed this on mine (just had 4 fitted myself). I think they never bothered taking the old ones off first before balancing, annoying tbh.
 
weird, never really noticed these before. makes me wonder what they put on last time :o

at least they don't bash them on the rim like they used to, due to the flush alloys
 
I was led to believe that stick ons are not as accurate as clip ons, not sure if thats true.
 
SB118 said:
5 grams is 5 grams .....
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Ok, let me re phrase that, stickies are harder to get perfect than clip ons, and go out sooner, due to falling off.

The chap where i have mine done told me that.
 
That many weights on an OEM rim??

I'm shocked it needs so many, stick on weights are great when you only need a few, much better than the clip on rim ones which if fitted to the outside (which they need to be if you want to balance the rim on 3 axis) look really pants.
 
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