Why Lord Why???

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 18:34

Coming home tonight and I overtook a large car transporter with around 8 Jaguar XJ's on board.

Looking at the bottom row, I noticed that the beautiful alloy wheels had friggin' balancing weights on the outside of them

What is the world coming too? And who employes these monkies?

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 19:04

my passenger pointed it out. There were about 8 weights on the outer rim and unless the wheel is incredibly unbalanced there is no need for the weight on the outside of an alloy, bearing in mind all proper wheel balancing is done with the outside face of the wheel set to 0 I can't see why this would be the case, and on a jag too.

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 19:09

paradigm said:
O RLY?

Ya Rly. After my passenger pointed it out, I observed it. If I hadn't noticed, I wouldn't have observed it now would I :rolleyes:

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 20:39

panthro said:
A little double team of rightous keyboard warriors, how cute

This is an alloy wheel weight

LMAO

Of course it appears that if you're not in with the 'in' crowd, you're nobody on these forums. Still its a nice little playground.

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 20:43

Firestar_3x said:
And your problem is?

Para's post is exactly why you sometimes can't put stick weights on the inside edge of the wheel......

The lack of even general car knowledge is shocking, no wonder mechanics can rip so many people off!

Unless the wheel is buckled severley it's always possible to balance a wheel on the inner side using weights setting the wheel face parameter to zero on the balancer. This was a brand new car, so either the wheel was severly buckled or they just couldn't be bothered.

It makes you think though, what £30k and whilst it may not feel like a washing machine at 70mph it looks very unsightly

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 21:16

Firestar_3x said:
I've seen several supercars around this area with wheel weights on the outside edge, who knows why, i always push for stick on weights, why would i want anything else, i suppose at the end of the day the owners buy the thing for the badge and don't care?

On a side note when i got my last set of tyres fitted, the machine did have a serious problem sorting my wheels out for some reason!

OT, what car do you drive? Do you think bigger wheels are harder to balance? Sticky weights in the inside surface normally get the job done IMO

Faithless · 10 Jan 2007 at 22:29

Mickey_D said:
Actually, you're wrong there. Those are weights for a steel wheel.

These are alloy weights....

Thats also not entirely true. The image posted by panthro are the weights added to the lip of the rim on any type of wheel and are exactly what was on the alloy's of said Jags. The stip of weights you have posted are the sticky weights that Firestar and I are referring to that lie inside the wheel.