I just received a new set of Rota Slips with new BFG drag radials mounted and balanced. When I was checking them out I noticed that the one wheel had 23 1/4 ounce weights installed and the other had 17 1/4 ounce weights installed on it. These are the stick on type wheel weights. Is it normal to have this many weights installed? Should I have these rebalanced? Is there a rule or guideline to follow when installing weights?

 

Normal, only somewhat with the stick on weights. It seems you see more and more on a single wheel as time goes on here, but I wonder if that is just the machines balancing things better or because the environmentalists have mandated the end of lead weights.

That said, my mechanic would have rotated the tire on the wheel to see if he could make use of less weights before just sticking that many on, but I doubt most would.

If it doesn't vibrate, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

The industry standard and our experience has shown that new tires and wheels often result in force variation readings of mid-teens. We have found that mid-20s can begin to cause a vibration. And it’s quite likely as the value goes above 30. Anything below 26 lbs. should be considered acceptable.

 

huh???? lamens terms please lol

 

Er, I believe you meant "layman's terms".

My assumption (and we all know about the issues of assumptions) is that a wheel balancer displays its reading in lbs. of imbalance, and that that is what Cooper The Tire Rack is discussing. However, how lbs. of imbalance translates into ounces of wheel weight is a mystery to me.

 

you say layman's, i say lamen's. lol thanks for the spell check.