I use my own stick mounting thing, and I WISH it were bolted to the floor haha. On most aluminum rims you can't even put a weight on the outside bead. Sure this one and a few American cars might take outside bead weights; but this can ONLY be as accurate as a spin balancer if the result is only placing weights on the inside of the rim or at the centerline. It's very simple physics. MOST tire shops also balance rims with the sticky weights and put them on the bead instead of a place where they will be held in by physics, and they fling off after the first rain or carwash. I am going to buy one of these now and tire shops be damned.
When I was changing tires (50 years ago) using a bubble balancer, I was taught to use 4 weights to be distributed 2 on the outside and 2 on the inside, directly opposing each other. This was suppose to help inner and outer balance. Any truth to this or was my employer just making up his own physics?
Shoot I have zero idea. I’ve done it this way and very seldom had an issue. Static balance is just like a level 2x4… So might have been hocus pocus but if you had good results, all is well :) I have an Acura with 19”s on it like 235mm wide. I wonder if this will work on those as well as it does on the smaller stuff!? Worked on a sienna. Those aren’t small. I Wouldn’t bother with a bubble balancer on a Ferrari :)
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I use my own stick mounting thing, and I WISH it were bolted to the floor haha.
On most aluminum rims you can't even put a weight on the outside bead. Sure this one and a few American cars might take outside bead weights; but this can ONLY be as accurate as a spin balancer if the result is only placing weights on the inside of the rim or at the centerline. It's very simple physics.
MOST tire shops also balance rims with the sticky weights and put them on the bead instead of a place where they will be held in by physics, and they fling off after the first rain or carwash.
I am going to buy one of these now and tire shops be damned.
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When I was changing tires (50 years ago) using a bubble balancer, I was taught to use 4 weights to be distributed 2 on the outside and 2 on the inside, directly opposing each other. This was suppose to help inner and outer balance. Any truth to this or was my employer just making up his own physics?
Shoot I have zero idea. I’ve done it this way and very seldom had an issue. Static balance is just like a level 2x4…
So might have been hocus pocus but if you had good results, all is well :)
I have an Acura with 19”s on it like 235mm wide. I wonder if this will work on those as well as it does on the smaller stuff!? Worked on a sienna. Those aren’t small.
I Wouldn’t bother with a bubble balancer on a Ferrari :)
thats for clip on weights. stick ons than go in the middle of the wheel dont have to do that.
@@frigglebiscuit7484 Yes, you are correct.
The only reason shops went away from bubble balancers is because digital machines are faster and require less skill.
Yes that and a bubble balances is very limited on a tire that is half used up and develops an issue - the whole static vs dynamic thing
As clear as mud