Just had new tires put on a couple days ago. I'm going to be stopping back by the shop as they have a little vibration that increases with speed. I noticed there seems to be around 6.5oz of wheel weights on two of the rims (rears only), while the fronts seem to have about half. Vibration seems to be coming from the rear, best I can tell.

What is the total amount of wheel balancing weights allowed/recc on an OEM type wheel? It just seemed like an excessive amount of weights, with all of them being .5 oz, and a few .25oz weights as well. 10@.5oz and 6@.25oz.

 

It depends on the tire. A mug bogger is going to require a lot more weight than a z-rated low profile type, but that seems excessive. Verify that the weight dot (indicates lightest) on the tire is aligned with the valve stem. If not, make them dismount and correct it. Notice in the below that the clowns at Ford obviously never graduated from "mounting tires 101" either.

 

It's not a mud bogger, but it is an All Terrain tire.
General Grabber ATX in OEM size 275/55/20 I don't think there are any DOTS on the outside.

 

 

Some tire manufacturers don't indicate the light spot, but most do. With those large lugs, or whatever the tread is called, they probably don't.

I am very **** about it due to riding sportbikes at high speeds (road courses). I want them to be perfect and at 160+ any imbalance becomes very noticeable. You also have to tape over the weights, so anything over a couple 1/4oz pieces I don't want. Apples to oranges, but you hear what I am saying.

 

I think there are more than most that don’t have a clue about the dots on tires these days. The last two different tire places(one was a dealer) I have been to I had to explain the dots to them.

 

I have had both KO2's and now the Grabber ATX and I found the Grabber took much more weight to get it to balance. Some manufacturers are more stringent on tolerances than others. That being said, none of this would explain both back being out more than both front. Almost sounds like maybe the rear has warped rims either from a sideways bump, this would absolutely cause the weights to be off.

 

They had less weight on them before from the factory. And no vibration on the Hancook Dynapros. I'm guessing they are misbalanced, but I'll need to take it back to them. The fronts look to have close to the original balancing weights on them right now.

 

There is always the chance that one of the weight flew off once up to speed...it happens more often that many would ever think.

 

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