Wheel / tyre balancing
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Is there a maximum amount of weights which should be used when balancing a wheel / tyre?
Had new Continental Cross Contact ATRs fitted to my Freelander 2 on Thursday by a "well known High Street chain". Washing the car today I noticed what seems to be a roll of stick on weights used on 2 of the wheels. Counted 130g on the one pictured below.
Is this excessive? Surely by rotating the tyre to a different position would have meant less weights used?
While I don't suppose there will be any issue like this it does look unsightly with weights being visible either side of a spoke on a 5 spoke wheel.
Should I complain and ask them to refit the tyres or just leave it?
Is there a maximum amount of weights which should be used when balancing a wheel / tyre?
Had new Continental Cross Contact ATRs fitted to my Freelander 2 on Thursday by a "well known High Street chain". Washing the car today I noticed what seems to be a roll of stick on weights used on 2 of the wheels. Counted 130g on the one pictured below.
Is this excessive? Surely by rotating the tyre to a different position would have meant less weights used?
While I don't suppose there will be any issue like this it does look unsightly with weights being visible either side of a spoke on a 5 spoke wheel.
Should I complain and ask them to refit the tyres or just leave it?
If it's round and balanced correctly, that's all that matters.
Do you see any red or yellow reference markes on the tyre? Are they aligned with the valve? If not, that may explain why it needed so much weight to balance. But if it is balanced now there's no practical benefit to remounting them.
Do you see any red or yellow reference markes on the tyre? Are they aligned with the valve? If not, that may explain why it needed so much weight to balance. But if it is balanced now there's no practical benefit to remounting them.
Bobupndown said:
No red or yellow dots noticeable on the tyres, that was the first thing I looked for.
Guess I'm just being a bit OCD?
In that caes the fitter would have no clues about the best orientation so mayby that's why it ended up needing more weights than usual.Guess I'm just being a bit OCD?
Anyway, if it's round and balanced you're good to go.
That looks bonkers to me. I suspect they have mounted the tyre basically at the wrong orientation for the wheel's own balance.
A friend of mine had something like this on his A45. Took it down the road to another shop who removed all the weights, took the tyre off and reinstalled it about 180 deg to where it had been on the wheel, then put it all back together with a single 25g weight and much closer to a perfect balance.
TL;DR some tyre shop staff are absolute morons and should not be trusted.
A friend of mine had something like this on his A45. Took it down the road to another shop who removed all the weights, took the tyre off and reinstalled it about 180 deg to where it had been on the wheel, then put it all back together with a single 25g weight and much closer to a perfect balance.
TL;DR some tyre shop staff are absolute morons and should not be trusted.
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