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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 04:35 PM
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i have removed all of the stick on balance waights thats on my front wheels because my calipers were touching my 18 rims I now have the wheels balanced and the weights moved away from the calliper but they only used a few were as before there were at least 10 waits all over the rim on the inside but now I have 4 in a row and that's it is that good enough
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 05:47 PM
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chances are the monkeys who balanced them the last time don't know what they're doing.. There should only ever be one group, no point at all having weights in separate places. (although theoretically you could have two groups, one on the inside of the rim and one on the outside if there's a lot of side-to-side imbalance, although it's unusual because we generally don't like to see weights on the outside, so they will mount them part way across the inside face)
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 05:53 PM
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as he said, monkey who did it before propbably on a shite uncalibrated balancer.. I have actually seen a wheel with weights almost all around the inside edge of a rim
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 05:59 PM
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agree with the above. i bought a set of esc cos rims once dirt cheap, they were covered in weights the guy thought one was buckled, i took em in to work pulled off over 300 grams per wheel, put em on the balancer stuck no more than 50g on each wheel and they were perfect.
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 06:01 PM
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try a static balance all on the inside lip...dead right tho weights shud be in 1 group
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 06:25 PM
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that what they called it a static balance
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