Wheel balancing at home
  • 56 points Jan-Vanhammer

    Allthread bends very easily. Good luck with that.

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    2 points Jvinsnes

    That is true, but it is not relevant. The wheel rotates and settles at the heaviest part. Adding weights on the opposite side evens it out. trial and error a few times and they ended up as balanced as can be

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  • 38 points Reasonable-Bus-2187

    Weight for it

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  • 8 points cj32769

    Looks like a mercedes bundt-pan wheel with an off-road tire. Balance really doesn't matter.

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    4 points Fluxmuster

    I'm guessing this is going on a VW camper van. Every Vanagon I see has w123 or W126 rims on it. 

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    2 points Trekintosh

    Vanagons don’t go fast or far enough for balance to become a factor

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    0 points Jvinsnes

    Correct on the rims, going on a w123. They are well balanced using this method

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    1 points cj32769

    👍

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  • 13 points Tupacca23

    I don’t think 3/8 all thread is enough

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  • 5 points RohmannEmpire93

    Yeah ok. Send it at 700 rpm

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    2 points Jvinsnes

    This method uses gravity for the wheel to settle where it's heaviest. Not like normal balancing machines work

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  • 24 points chrisinator9393

    They only charge like $3 to balance a tire. I'd say this one was an L

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    0 points Jvinsnes

    They got perfectly balanced in a few hours at home, while balancing professionally cost $80-120 for a set. I'd say a big W for sure.

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    1 points chrisinator9393

    Mount and balance is $15-20/tire. You obviously already mounted it. Balancing itself is almost no cost and it would've taken less time to go to a shop and have them do it 😂

    But go off gangsta. Maybe your time is free.

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  • 3 points cbinvb

    Just use Dyna beads and be done with it

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    1 points Right_Stage_8167

    I used airsoft beads

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  • 3 points miki88ptt

    ???

    So much time wasted 🥰

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    0 points Jvinsnes

    Perfectly balanced in a few hours at home, and for free! Not at all a waste

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    1 points Sir_Cthulhu_N_You

    Depends on how much you value your time.

    But it fits the sub so I don't get the hate lol.

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  • 1 points Tr0z3rSnak3

    I would have just used bb's as weights

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  • -1 points PsychologicalLog4179

    Lol derp

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