Big Wheel Big Weights
10-23-2001, 02:17 PM
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Big Wheel Big Weights
I've recently purchased four Konig Tantrums 17 x 8 with 235/45/17
tires. On one of the wheels there is a strip of 17 tape-on weights (12 front and 5 back same area of rim). The equates to 17 x 0.25 oz = 4.25 ozs. This seems to be quite a bit of weights to get the wheel to balance. Anyone with this experience and is this acceptable? Is there a chance that the wheel/tire is a below average unit?
tires. On one of the wheels there is a strip of 17 tape-on weights (12 front and 5 back same area of rim). The equates to 17 x 0.25 oz = 4.25 ozs. This seems to be quite a bit of weights to get the wheel to balance. Anyone with this experience and is this acceptable? Is there a chance that the wheel/tire is a below average unit?
10-23-2001, 03:44 PM
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Re: Big Wheel Big Weights
Originally posted by tennis5luv
I've recently purchased four Konig Tantrums 17 x 8 with 235/45/17
tires. On one of the wheels there is a strip of 17 tape-on weights (12 front and 5 back same area of rim). The equates to 17 x 0.25 oz = 4.25 ozs. This seems to be quite a bit of weights to get the wheel to balance. Anyone with this experience and is this acceptable? Is there a chance that the wheel/tire is a below average unit?
I've recently purchased four Konig Tantrums 17 x 8 with 235/45/17
tires. On one of the wheels there is a strip of 17 tape-on weights (12 front and 5 back same area of rim). The equates to 17 x 0.25 oz = 4.25 ozs. This seems to be quite a bit of weights to get the wheel to balance. Anyone with this experience and is this acceptable? Is there a chance that the wheel/tire is a below average unit?
10-23-2001, 11:15 PM
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Re: Big Wheel Big Weights
Originally posted by tennis5luv
I've recently purchased four Konig Tantrums 17 x 8 with 235/45/17
tires. On one of the wheels there is a strip of 17 tape-on weights (12 front and 5 back same area of rim). The equates to 17 x 0.25 oz = 4.25 ozs. This seems to be quite a bit of weights to get the wheel to balance. Anyone with this experience and is this acceptable? Is there a chance that the wheel/tire is a below average unit?
I've recently purchased four Konig Tantrums 17 x 8 with 235/45/17
tires. On one of the wheels there is a strip of 17 tape-on weights (12 front and 5 back same area of rim). The equates to 17 x 0.25 oz = 4.25 ozs. This seems to be quite a bit of weights to get the wheel to balance. Anyone with this experience and is this acceptable? Is there a chance that the wheel/tire is a below average unit?
That is a ton of weights. I have four to five weights on each wheel for my heavy a$$ Borbet Type M's.
10-24-2001, 07:27 AM
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When more than 3.00 ozs. the person balancing the wheels should deflate the tire and mark where the valvestem is and rotate it 45 degrees and reinflate it and try to balance it again if more than 3.00 ozs. is required it is because the wheel is bent or defective. My father has been in the tire and wheel buisness for over 32 years and I speak from knowledge he past to me when I worked for him going through college. And the process can be repeated until the weight is reduced below 3.00 if it cannot be done something is wrong with the tire or wheel.
10-24-2001, 02:16 PM
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Originally posted by SVTTODAMAX
When more than 3.00 ozs. the person balancing the wheels should deflate the tire and mark where the valvestem is and rotate it 45 degrees and reinflate it and try to balance it again if more than 3.00 ozs. is required it is because the wheel is bent or defective. My father has been in the tire and wheel buisness for over 32 years and I speak from knowledge he past to me when I worked for him going through college. And the process can be repeated until the weight is reduced below 3.00 if it cannot be done something is wrong with the tire or wheel.
When more than 3.00 ozs. the person balancing the wheels should deflate the tire and mark where the valvestem is and rotate it 45 degrees and reinflate it and try to balance it again if more than 3.00 ozs. is required it is because the wheel is bent or defective. My father has been in the tire and wheel buisness for over 32 years and I speak from knowledge he past to me when I worked for him going through college. And the process can be repeated until the weight is reduced below 3.00 if it cannot be done something is wrong with the tire or wheel.
limit and if that's not possible, request for a new wheel and tire.
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