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What's this for on a wheel??
DIR By: Colin_397
Date: March 30, 2013, 9:40 am
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As the title says, what's the round thing attached to the back
of the rim for? Our guess is a balance weight. But it seems a
bit extreme. (Must have been really badly made in the first
place)
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Re: What's this for on a wheel??
DIR By: Albert Ross
Date: March 30, 2013, 10:11 am
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Spot on. Balance weight it is!
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Re: What's this for on a wheel??
DIR By: Colin_397
Date: March 30, 2013, 3:21 pm
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I thought that's what it was, just I can't believe it needs that
much weight to balance the rim. I can't see where an imbalance
that big can be.
Do many rims have this? I can't say I've seen one before (or
paid enough attention to notice).
There's also a rim with lugs for a hub cap, would that be a
trailer rim and not a land rover one?
#Post#: 55843--------------------------------------------------
Re: What's this for on a wheel??
DIR By: stuey
Date: March 30, 2013, 3:39 pm
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You could buy the wheels for hub caps as an optional extra in
the SIII optional extra parts book [boring anoraky voice that
everybody's getting bored of but ICGAF]Some of the Searle models
(most notably the estate station wagon) had hub caps fitted and
also the Royal review rovers had them fitted too[/boring anoraky
voice that everybody's getting bored of but ICGAF]
Cheers
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Re: What's this for on a wheel??
DIR By: ajb403
Date: March 30, 2013, 4:01 pm
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Was told by my local garage that one of my wheels needed 150
grams on one side when they fitted a new tyre!
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Re: What's this for on a wheel??
DIR By: Colin_397
Date: March 31, 2013, 3:01 am
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--- Quote from: ajb403 link ---
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> Was told by my local garage that one of my wheels needed 150
grams on one side when they fitted a new tyre!
>
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That's a lot but I can understand that as the tyres are where
the imbalance is, remoulds, cross-plys and luggy mud tyres are
known for needing lots of weight adding. (I assume it was one of
the above)
A wheels is a nice relatively easy thing to make, I just can't
see how they can get it so far wrong to start with. I guess
that's a secret of the British motor industry.
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