Think ive lost my wheel weights!

[christofmccracke]

I dont really use my car much now and only do very small journeys to uni under 5 miles.
But I decided to come home yesterday for the "weekend" so drove 50 miles didnt notice anything. then after stopping for an hour at a relatives im driving and it feels almost like theres a puncture at the back and the road is very rough (even though it appears smooth) checked for a puncture, all seems fine.

so this morning I have a look at my wheel weights to see if that could be the problem and some wheels seem to have less than others and one wheel has none! and you can see where they have been attatched.

My alloy wheels are from team dynamics and are under 18 months old.

drove today for around 20 miles and felt the occasional feeling experienced last night but on the motoroway at 60 car felt fine.

any ideas?

will get pics up soon

[john_p]

If only there was a place that you could get your wheels tested for correct 'balance'

Perhaps they could use a machine for that purpose

Perhaps as it's Friday afternoon, they might even do it for a small consideration in cash

[Petrolhead_Rich]

1st set of tyres?

weights are changed with the tyres, so one tyre may need balance weights in different places to other tyres.

If in doubt, get them balanced again (£5 per wheel)

[LeoSayer]

christofmccracke said:

I dont really use my car much now and only do very small journeys to uni under 5 miles.
But I decided to come home yesterday for the "weekend" so drove 50 miles didnt notice anything. then after stopping for an hour at a relatives im driving and it feels almost like theres a puncture at the back and the road is very rough (even though it appears smooth) checked for a puncture, all seems fine.

so this morning I have a look at my wheel weights to see if that could be the problem and some wheels seem to have less than others and one wheel has none! and you can see where they have been attatched.

My alloy wheels are from team dynamics and are under 18 months old.

drove today for around 20 miles and felt the occasional feeling experienced last night but on the motoroway at 60 car felt fine.

any ideas?

will get pics up soon

Can't wait for the pics.

[christofmccracke]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

1st set of tyres?

weights are changed with the tyres, so one tyre may need balance weights in different places to other tyres.

If in doubt, get them balanced again (£5 per wheel)

im on my second set of front tyres due to hitting some bad potholes but the rears are original.

Theres a tyre specialist near me will pop up and see them see whats what

[Fun Bus]

christofmccracke said:

for the "weekend"

I'm having a weekend. What makes yours a "weekend"?

[useyourdellusion]

Bloody pikeys! Has it come to this....?

[Munter]

2 of my "summer set" for the MX5 didn't need any weights to balance up! The poor tyre guy spent ages trying to work out what was wrong with his machine after the 2nd one... We just got lucky. So a lack of weights doesn't always mean they have fallen off...

[mnkiboy]

LeoSayer said:

christofmccracke said:

stuff

Can't wait for the pics.

I'm literally on the edge of my seat, waiting for these pics of "no wheel weights".

[OllieC]

Slightly O/T

I had a vibration and 'clatter' coming from my old capri when pulling away, replacing the propshaft cured this clatter.

around this time I noticed a vibration coming from the back of the car. I deduced that I had put prop on wrong or that this too was faulty...

to cut a long story short i failed to notice that this new vibration was due to losing balancing weight. cue lots of fannying around with proshafts later, it was a proper "DOH!" moment.

[christofmccracke]

Munter said:

2 of my "summer set" for the MX5 didn't need any weights to balance up! The poor tyre guy spent ages trying to work out what was wrong with his machine after the 2nd one... We just got lucky. So a lack of weights doesn't always mean they have fallen off...

looks likes there is marks where they have been attatched to the wheel