How much weight???!!!

mmaddock · Mar 9, 2006

I just had a local tyre place put a General Grabber AT2 onto the spare.

They had to put 155 gramms of weights onto the inside of the tyre to get it to balance. The bloke was rather amazed it was so far out. He did it so that the weights are on the inside for me so the rim wasn't covered in them! (he would have had to put 90g on the outside of the rim)

I don't know what anyone else thinks, but sounds like a duff tyre to me. Quite tempted to return it, but I've paid for it to be fitted and I'll have to pay for it to be un-fitted, and then send it back, and I'm not sure I can be bothered.

What do others think?

Matt.

slob · Mar 9, 2006

dunno know about grabbers but car tyres have a little dot that is supposed to be fitted opposite the valve. a lot of tyre fitters don't know or don't bother with this and it puts the balance of the tyre right off. have a look around the sidewall of the tyre both inner and outer sides. it will probelly be red and about 4mm in dia.

yella · Mar 9, 2006

sometimes its not all down to the tyre but also down to the rim. if a wheel has been kerbed or gone down a pot hole it can distort the rim slightly causing the make up of the rim to disperse the density of the molecular constructioninto diffenent parts of the item(the wheel). the best thing to do is put the rim on a balancer without a tyre on it so that you can see how far the rim is out before you put the tyre on.

Lenny1969 · Mar 9, 2006

Crap.

Yup, crap.

Not what your saying Yella, but when i had my 2 tyres replaced the inside of the wheel had so much crap on it the guy took the wheel outside to scrape off the crap cuz it was effecting the balance.

yella · Mar 9, 2006

yes lenny this could be true, but what i am saying is not crap and can be a contributary factor

Lenny1969 · Mar 9, 2006

yella disco said:
yes lenny this could be true, but what i am saying is not crap and can be a contributary factor

Thats what i said, what your saying is not crap, but what i was saying was not crap either, but it could've been crap. However you thinking i was saying you were talking crap when you weren't talking crap, was crap, where as i was talking crap but not crap as in crap, but merely it could of been crap, as opposed to your statement which wasnt crap, neither was mine.

All clear now?????

GRUNT · Mar 10, 2006

As clear as ****.

mmaddock · Mar 10, 2006

Yes! Actually the bloke spent a while cleaning the wheel first because it was covered in the remains of the tyre that was on there! (much like one of big the rocks on Walna Scar is now covered in the majority of my OSR tyre

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How much weight???!!!

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