wheel weights on the outside of wheels..

[antz]

Who else finds this the ultimate sin?

 

Its weird that people spend hundreds of pounds on some lovely wheels then slap about 40grams of weight on the outside of each wheel…it looks horrible!

 

I picked my car up from the garage last night and he said 'your wheels were a tad out of balance so I had them balanced for you' and I looked at my wheels to find 40grams stuck on the dish of each wheel….my instant thought was 'MY LOVELY WHEELS!!...RUINED!!!' but I thought id give them a go as the steering has always been a bit rough. Drove 20miles home with them on and it made ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE so first thing I did was rip the buggers off.

 

I hate it when people put weights on the outside of wheels

[SmokeEm]

Any decent tyre depot should be able to balance from the inside rim. It's just a case of pushing a button on the machine

[Noodles]

I had my wheels all powder coated then they stuck silver weights on the outside so I had to mask em up and spray the weight

[Mk2Jo]

You just need to request sticky weights on the inside of the wheel instead

[antz]

thing is i had them balanced a couple of months ago and specifically requested weights on the inside which they did.

 

then the garage went and got them rebalanced and put them on the outside too!

 

bloody great big things right on the dish of my wheels....luckily they came off easily and didnt chip the paint

[Fishtailparka]

Lots of wheel weights are usually the result of buying cheap crappy tyres.

[Conor]

I picked my car up from the garage last night and he said 'your wheels were a tad out of balance so I had them balanced for you' and I looked at my wheels to find 40grams stuck on the dish of each wheel….

 

Nooooo....

 

I never ever have stuck on weights on my Capper rims. I always have hammer on ones. And I also don't subscribe to the "no weights on the outside" rule either. Why? Because you don't get as good a balance and on a RWD OSF, you get an even worse one due to the offset of the rim basically meaning any weights you put at the back of the "hub" need to be far larger than they should be to have the desired effect at the outer edge.

 

If it were a modern FWD car though, no weights on show is the way to go but I think with an OSF, unless you're running something like polished minilites, hammer on ones are perfectly OK. Should only need 10-20 grams though if you buy decent tyres.

[caprinerd]

i just asked them for the stick on weights and they done them with out any probs

and as smokey says any decent tyre fitters should do this with out having to ask

[OldskoolSue]

I used to ask them to put the weights on the inside of my deep dish alloys when i had them wasnt a problem for them at all,i agree it looks fooking ugly on the outside.

[Chris!]

Your all buftys

[Mr Sam]

my wheels suffer from this unless you specifically ASK them to stick them on the inside they just stick up on the outside

[mk1super]

Lad that did my wheels popped the weights on the inside cos as he said "Weights on the outside look shite"

[Fishtailparka]

Are weights not put onto the outside because that is where they are needed?

I thought they were put on the side where they needed to be put to balance the wheels.

I understand the wish to have them out of sight, but do they do what they are supposed to if they are on the wrong side?

 

As said above.....buftys!!

[wolf666]

at r place ATS EUROMASTER we balance them on the inside it just looks cleaner to

[deltamal]

Ive got 3 set's of wheels, 14" revos, 13" escy mk 2 alloys, and 15" minilites, all balanced on the inside with no probs, good quality tyres though....

[jambo77]

it all depends on the fitter and equipment. a lazy fitter will just bang on a static weight on the inner rim, if he can't be bothered you will get bang on weights on both rims, a bit more effort and you will get stick on weights just inside the inner rim and behind the face of the wheel ( out of sight ) or if he is good with good equipment you can get the weight pinpointed to a single point normally about central between the beads. but it's true cheep tyres = more balance weights due to denser patches of rubber during the tyres construction.

[SebringRS]

My dad hates tht aswell, gotta admit it doesnt look good, especially if there realy nice rims