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The math says that it is not too much weight. But common sense, and perhaps my supervisor, would have made me remove 11 weights on each side.. Again, I don't know $#*t about balancing tires. My skill level only allows for me to change a tire when needed. It could very well be that he gave the tire a spin, the machine told him to add weights, gave it another spin, then machine wanted more weight, and 5 spins later..........

diversity and tolerance. Can't we all just get along? Some people have to travel to Thailand to get a hooker NOT of the opposite sex. When hookers are right outside of your house, we call that "front door service". Don't look down upon me for how I make my living. At least I am proud of my work. I do it with pride, and practice my craft well. That is what is wrong with kids today. They don't care about how they do their jobs. Nobody takes pride in their work anymore. Just look at how the goofball balanced my tire. Make America Great Again!

So of course, out of curiosity, I crawled under the truck to inspect my other tires. Being lazy, I only looked under the driver's side. The girl that installed those used a stick on weights, the same way, placing them along the center line. On 1 wheel she used 2.75 oz. On another, she used 1.75 oz. No crazy pile of weights, placed opposite 180 degrees. After seeing that 1 side looked okay, I didn't feel like climbing under the passenger's side. 24 lbs for the wheel. 67 lbs for the tire. 91 lbs total. 16 ounces per pound. 1,456 ounces total. As per tirerack.com : https://blog.tirerack.com/blog/make-driving-fun-2/how-many-wheel-weights-are-too-many- While there is no industry standard, the general consensus of what is too much weight is when it takes more than 1% of the assembly weight to bring it into balance. In theory, my wheel should not require more than 14.5 ounces to balance. In total, the guy used 7 ounces. Except for the fact that it looks crazy, the math does not seem so bad. It is only half of the acceptable amount of weight. I wonder if it made any difference that the tire has seen about 60,000 miles of hard use, and not a brand new tire. Here is what the other two tires, on the driver's side, look like. Different combination of wheel & tire brands, but similar specs. !7X9 wheel. 35X12.5R17 tire. The car has Dick Cepek DC-2 wheels with GreenBall Kanati Mud Hog tires. The spare is an Pro Comp Series 69, with Hankook DynaPro ATM.

I've never mounted & balanced a tire in my life. But any idiot could see that there is something wrong with that picture. I have heard that with aftermarket alloy wheels like that, they use stick on wheel weights on the inside of the wheel along the center 0 degree offset line; no lip on aftermarket wheels to hammer on traditional weights, hide the weights from view to make it look better, because of various offset configurations the best balance is from the center line........ But that could just be misinformation spread by people who don't really know any better. Nope. Not going to take it back to that same shop. Obviously, the shop tech is an idiot, and the supervisor is not doing a good enough job of overseeing that kind of work. Why give them a chance to argue, try to defend what they did, and screw things up more? I'll just take that somewhere else, where they could first laugh at me, then fix it. No big deal at the moment. It is only a spare tire. And they didn't charge me for it........which is probably why they let some apprentice use it for practice.

People in cities are there for a reason. They want to be there. That's almost the same reason why people aren't in the city. They don't want to be there. Not often, but every once in awhile, you will get someone who is willing to switch. I grew up living in The City, but spent a lot of time outdoors. As a kid, we often left The City for hunting, fishing, snow sports. Interesting dynamic growing up next to an ocean, was that we got to go into the ocean. That is completely different from boating and fishing on a lake. For me, Big City life offers culture, diversity, entertainment.......but the best part is.....are you ready for it? Public Transportation. Living in a city with reliable transportation, means that I can actually take buses & trains, and get anywhere I want 24 hours a day. I love having 1st class SWAT team ready to serve a warrant by kicking in my door, Major League Baseball, NFL, NBA, NHL, casinos, strip clubs, Best of Broadway, Opera, Symphony, Michelin Star dining, happy ending massages, a race track, night clubs, museums, zoos, and an international airport all right outside my door. We have neighborhoods. You can literally walk out your front door, take a walk around your block, and find groceries, a butcher, a fish monger, a produce stand, a bar, a marijuana dispensary, a rub & tug, a synagogue......everything that other people have to get into their cars and drive to a mall to access. But I get it. People also want peace, quiet, personal space, safety, and a less frenetic pace in life. The only thing that I would not trade, is immediate access to medical technology. Certain life saving procedures are only available in medical facilities in large cities. I hope none of you ever find yourself in a position where the local doctor says, "we don't do that here, the nearest hospital that could do that is XXX hours away". Same reason why I will never retire to a 3rd world country to live like Dennis Hoff in a brothel. You can get a sex change in Thailand, but not open heart surgery. Or at least you wouldn't want the breast implant doctor to do your heart surgery.

May or may not be relevant. There were 2 owners manuals for my F-150. Both have different fuse box diagrams. Maybe there's another manual with different information. I had to use the VIN to get the right version of the manual from Ford. The dealer gave me the wrong owners manual.

3's Company was the greatest show of all time. I watch Oprah with the sound turned off. I don't want to hear what she has to say. Just the poor man's version of softcore adult entertainment.

I have a TV that I have to adjust the picture, depending on what channel I'm watching. I don't need to watch a spaghetti western version of 3's Company. Nor do I need for Oprah to look any bigger. You would think that all modern electronics can detect and adjust for proper aspect ratio. And with the Google Chrome browser, I can't view certain videos. You would think that a modern browser would have the necessary plug-ins installed and updated.

Interesting observations. To me, the most interesting part of all, is that the tire was brand new. Went back there again today. The girl who installed my new tires yesterday insisted on holding onto the best condition tire, so that I can come back with a wheel for her to mount it on. She was right. It is always safer to have a spare tire. I've been driving that truck for over 10 years without a spare tire. She was out of the shop, so one of the guys mounted it for me. When I got home and looked at it, I started laughing at the ridiculous amount of wheel weights it took for him to balance the tire. I've never seen anything like it. I've seen a few wheel weights here & there. But never that many. Not being a tire tech, I don't know. Is that normal?

Life in The Big City is different. I can't imagine doing that. Why didn't you ask for a delivery? If they wanted to make $$$XXX, they would have brought it to your front door.

Wear depends on user. Some people load and tow more weight than others.

The hardest part would be to get the installer to admit fault. It would be easier to prove a manufacturer defect, before the tire shop tech owns up to mistake.

More wheel with a little less tire. Less sidewall. Perhaps a little bit more grip on the road. Maybe better handling. Maybe a stiffer ride. But it shouldn't really be that noticeable unless you have a back back. I haven't noticed anyone on the forum mention suspension modifications. Nobody has tried different shocks, springs, and struts.

Weird. It looks fine on my screen using a desktop computer. But on my pocket size tablet screen, the photos are all stretched.

Clay Bar?

5150 on the rack

I was @ Sears getting tires installed on The 5150 Mobile. A tow truck brought in a car with a blowout. Nothing special......except that the tire was so new, you could still see the Tire Tread Markings. It looked like the car just had the tire installed, drove out of the shop, then blew out.

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An extra inch isn't much bigger for a wheel. But that could make all the difference, depending on what the offset and backspacing is. Do the tires rub when turning? I don't think the handling or turn radius would be noticeable with 1" difference in wheel width......

In my area, a lot of the vans have glass on the sliding door, and a metal panel over the rear wheel.

As I drive around, it looks like some cargo vans have auto glass on the sliding doors.

All within the same month. Last month. First I hit a pothole with the Transit Connect. Wheel damage. Tire still holds air. But I felt better changing it so that I don't drive on a damaged wheel. Then the TPMS light illuminates on the dashboard, while I am on the freeway. Fearing that I had another damaged tire or wheel, I pulled over. Spent over an hour removing each tire, inspecting it for damage, and reinflating on the side of the road....only to find no damage, and deciding that TPMS light must be because my damaged wheel with the sensor is in the spare tire position. Developed a slow leak with a tire on the truck. Found a tire with damage. Ordered new tires. Will get 4 new tires once they all arrive at the tire shop. But in the last few weeks, at least twice a week, I have been jacking up the truck to fill the tire with air. So in the last month, I have used my jacks, breaker bar, impact socket, air compressor, and torque wrench more than I have had to in decades. I do not typically remove and install tires. Even rotations are done at whatever tire shop that I have lifetime free rotation, re-torque, balancing, et cetera. Perhaps 12 years ago, I had Wal*Mart install some tires. Their system does not indicate what they installed way back then. Just that as part of the installation, there is lifetime balance, rotation, and re-torque. So I am still getting that with whatever I drive in. America's Tire, Sears, Firestone, WheelWorks.....all have some record of me buying or installing tires there over the years, and there is a notation in the system for road hazard, rotation, or whatever. I don't even remember. I just drive into the shops and ask them to check their system.