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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Sheltac 151 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] EdibleFriend 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] EdibleFriend 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Nioxic 4 points 1 year ago

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

My car has a few one one of the rims

[–] Shardikprime 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sheltac 6 points 1 year ago

Hahaha no worries!

[–] Wrench 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] DaCookeyMonsta 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Weights, to mess with the balance of the wheel

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Danatronic 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/c/fuckcars would love this

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Danatronic 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhh the syntax for tagging subs is an exclamation point?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Danatronic 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] JonVonBasslake 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On connect it renders your link excluding the exclamation mark, but the other one includes it as a part of the link... Odd see here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FinalRemix 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] floral_toxicity 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] betterdeadthanreddit 27 points 1 year ago

Nice try, eBay wheel weight merchant.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] LillianVS 2 points 1 year ago

For a second I thought they were lithium batteries, then we'd have an attempted murder charge on our hands lol

[–] x4740N 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone getting the urge to steal these and sell them

[–] ClockworkOtter 0 points 1 year ago

Found Jesus?

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