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Wheel balancing weights

Old 04-23-2019, 06:40 PM
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I've found a set of unicorn shoes JDM AP1 forged BBS wheels reasonably locally (about 250 miles away but unfortunately on another island), and while badly kerbed they're supposedly not cracked or bent, so I'm considering buying them. I've asked for pictures and the only thing that stands out to me at a glance is the number of weights fitted to one of them. Is this more likely to be due to tire imbalance or is it possible something's wrong with that wheel? See bottom of image...


Old 04-23-2019, 07:47 PM
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Honestly it could be either over maybe even a tech at the shop didn't do that great of a job. Impossible to know just from that picture.
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I have a set that I balanced myself and one of the wheels took 2 ounces of weights (another took 1 and the other two took nothing). Frankly, even with an extra half pound of wheel weights between them all, you're still in perfectly reasonable territory and saving a ton of unsprung weight compared to literally any other AP1 sized wheel for, say, street class autocross.
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Fair enough, just wasn't sure if I was being picky or not. Still, for about $US300 for the set I guess I can't complain.
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Go get em and make them pretty again.
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I have a set of Rays Forged Monoblocks with about as many weights as that. It has no bends, does not vibrate, or shake. I just chalked it up to the tires.
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Originally Posted by freq
Go get em and make them pretty again.
As you command...I just paid a grand total of $200.37 for them. Unfortunately now it'll cost about $160 to get them to my door...
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