How much is too much weight to balance out a tire. Here's the story. I am picking up a 1995 2500 this weekend and the guy said bring a set if tires. I had a set of 17" wheels from my last truck. I had a national chain put on a load range E tire that was rather cheap. I may go back to 20's this summer so there was no need to speed a $1000 on tire I may change in a few months. I was putting them in the van and noticed that 1 tire had as much as 16 oz of weight in 1 spot. The other 3 were not as bad. Is there a limit to how much weight a tire shop should use before getting a different tire???? I know it is not the wheels due to having this set of wheels for the last 10 years with 4 different sets of tires on them.

 

There is no limit on how much can be installed since the mounter is governed by whatever it takes to balance the tire. In my experience, I would break the bead, rotate the tire 180 and try again.

 

That is too much and too stupid looking.
Rotating the tire is the right way to go.

 

I talked to the guy and he said bring them back. I will get a new tire if it cant be balenced. They are using stick on wieghts which were stacked 4 high on top of each other. I cant see that the weight would stay on the rim like that. I'll keep you guys posted on what happens.

 

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/q...o10/weight.jpg
http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/q...10/weight3.jpg
These are some weight pics I took.

 

So I get the truck to the shop last night. They get one of the wheels on the machine to show it is going to need more weight. Then the kicker of the story; We cant put on the stick on weights when the wheels are this cold. You would think they would just tell me this when I arrived instead of wasting 2 hours. I think I have always gone to tire shops that have Idiots working at it. They had the wheels in their shop on thursday of last week.

 

hmm...thats not right stacking the wights like that...in my opinion

i used to work in a tire shop and ive never had to stack weights like that..... though i have seen and done where you would have to put the side by side on the center line of the balance point indicated by the balancer and it would balance right...


another thing to try would be dismounting the tire and spin it 180 on the rim and see if it does the same thing