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[Webby the Bear]

Taking my wheels to a local precision welding place. Good rates for making my wheels round again. However something occurred to me.

Somebody said spin the wheels up with no tyre which is a great idea. After the repair I’m presuming a zero zero balance would be perfect but what realistically will I see after the repair? 10g without a tyre?

As said just curious 😄

[Nick W]

There's no guarantee that a straightened/repaired wheel will be perfectly balanced. Not all damage can be repaired either; none of the local firms will straighten a FWD offset wheel that's buckled on the outside edge.

[Webby the Bear]

These aren't necessarily buckled i.e. When spun they're not bobbing around everywhere. However they take a lot of weight to balance and are really difficult to balance. So I figured get them round as possible and fit my nice new tyres and rebalance them.

Any other suggestions?

[TheBoy]

If the wheels are off balance significantly with no tyre, use that info to fit the tyre slightly differently using the heavy bit of the tyre to counteract.

[Webby the Bear]

ok,so how would one find the heavy part of the tyre? Forgive my stupidity

[Tick Tock]

If the wheels are off balance significantly with no tyre, use that info to fit the tyre slightly differently using the heavy bit of the tyre to counteract.

The heavy bit is always at the bottom when you've got a puncture. The strange thing is the heavy bit moves if you drive forward a bit with flat tyres. 

[TheBoy]

ok,so how would one find the heavy part of the tyre? Forgive my stupidity

You fit tyres, right?

So you already know (or you shouldn't be fitting them )

[Webby the Bear]

ok,so how would one find the heavy part of the tyre? Forgive my stupidity

You fit tyres, right?

So you already know (or you shouldn't be fitting them )

Oh come on mate give me a break lol when I fit I put the paint mark by the valve and balance accordingly. There's no rocket science.

So yes consider me your dumb minion and please explain...

[dave the builder]

ok,so how would one find the heavy part of the tyre? Forgive my stupidity

it's the black part 
not the see through part in the middle 

[Webby the Bear]

 

[dave the builder]

new tyres come with a dot on the sidewall that you put opposite the valve ,so i'd think dot is heavy part 

[Entwood]

https://www.tirebusiness.com/article/20070813/ISSUE/308139967/are-you-seeing-dots-those-color-coded-sidewall-markings-serve-a-purpose

Seek and you shall find .... 

[Webby the Bear]

Ok, let's just be clear. Yes I know about the paint dot. And my understanding was the manufacturer puts that on and you fit that with the dot next to the valve. I didn't know that was deemed to be the heaviest part; merely where they felt it was optimal to balance. Now I know 

[Shackeng]

https://www.tirebusiness.com/article/20070813/ISSUE/308139967/are-you-seeing-dots-those-color-coded-sidewall-markings-serve-a-purpose

Seek and you shall find .... 

Fat chance of Mr Clutch 'fitters' knowing this, or acting on it.

[TheBoy]

So if you (professionally) fitted a tyre, dot by valve, and it needed a bucket load of balancing weights (say, 100g), you would just balance it, rather than rotate the tyre?