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I need to do this
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What is that?
Wheel weights. Their wheels will be unbalanced, meaning their steering will vibrate at certain speeds, depending on what the new balance is.
It’s not unsafe per se, at least not primarily. It’s annoying as fuck tho.
Is that literally why they exist? To fuck with people?
They are used to balance tires, but only one or a few in the right locations.
Aaaah
No, they are used to balance wheels and tires that are out of balance.
When a new tire is mounted on a wheel, it has to be balanced on a machine that spins it, locates the light side, operator adds weights to make it balance.
Haha no, wheels and tires can't be produced balanced consistently. So after the tire is put on the wheel, you put those weights on to balance them.
Nope. If you walk past cars you will often see this.
My car has a few one one of the rims
You could randomly stick weights on it and slowly figure out of if you really wanted to.
To balance a tire properly you need a bubble balancer.
I got a flat tire and needed to replace the tires. Since I was going to get new tires soon anyway my quick replacement was a used tire different from my others.
My car was unbalanced and it felt so weird, had to keep checking if I got another flat because the vibration feeling was so off.
Holy shit my brother I had seen these things for years, thrown in the ground and always figured they had something to do with cars, only didn't know WHAT. you sir have scratched that mental itch and my brain lobes are forever thankful
Hahaha no worries!
Weights, to mess with the balance of the wheel
Stick on tire weights. They're used to balance the weight of a tire, or in this case to massively un-balance a tire.