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[–] Caboose12000 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

what am I even looking at here? they glued a bunch of weights to the inside of the wheel? fckn wild m8

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They're wheel weights for balancing. You may have some on your own wheels. It's normal to need a few. The "mechanic" who did this number likely did it as a "fuck you" to the customer. There's no way this was negligence or ineptitude.

[–] HocEnimVeni 4 points 2 years ago

Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice which is adequately explained by stupidity.

If a tire is not mounted properly to the balancing machine it will tell the tech to put pounds of weights on the wheel.