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What is that?

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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.

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Is that literally why they exist? To fuck with people?

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They are used to balance tires, but only one or a few in the right locations.

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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.

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Nope. If you walk past cars you will often see this.

My car has a few one one of the rims

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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

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Hahaha no worries!

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Oh shit. I had an old beater that would shake apart at certain rpms. It was a hand me down that I drove into the ground and didn’t spend money on, so I never got it inspected. Didn’t know the solution was so easy.

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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.

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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.

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23 points

Weights, to mess with the balance of the wheel

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21 points

Stick on tire weights. They’re used to balance the weight of a tire, or in this case to massively un-balance a tire.

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52 points

/c/fuckcars would love this

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21 points

Ohhh the syntax for tagging subs is an exclamation point?

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Yep, and I the web UI it also autocompletes so much easier. Not sure about all the apps though

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5 points

It’s their fault for parking illegally.

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3 points

Yeah, sounds like a YOU issue tbh…

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I’ve been spending too much time on noncredibledefense, I thought they were ERA blocks at first glance.

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Well, they can be… just not very good ERA blocks…

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Buy a fuck load of wheel weights here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/233731184483

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Nice try, eBay wheel weight merchant.

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Remove tire from rim, place shot put in tire and remount, victory.

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