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[Varche]

I had a pair of tryes for the omega the other day.

As ever I watched the guy at work in particular the balancing.  He rejected one tyre as he was unable to balance it! I asked him if it happened often e.g. 1 in a hundred to which he replied no very rarely maybe one in a thousand. He said it might be alright on someone elses wheel.

The readings were 13.5 and 10.5 (which mean nothing to me). He let the air out and moved it around the rim and he still couldn't do the job.

The next tyre he tried came up 20 and 10.

Anyone else had that happen?

[TheBoy]

I've had plenty they hadn't been able to balance at standard fastfit places.

None of them picked up on the fact prefacelift MV6 rims never run true, which whens you can never properly balance them...

[cem_devecioglu]

 :-?

13.5 and 10 grs  are not high values and easy to balance..something wrong there..

the last time a tire shop told me that tire was erroneous I laugh at them.. because they told this for a brand new potenza 

finally I found a shop with a patient worker, tried the tire with other rims and find the fault to be the rim itself.. (the reason  is the rim had many arms and hard to correct and expensive to destroy so they cant trust their work)

after some time he corrected the rim and make the balance on the car.. result was perfect..

so look for other shops imo..

[TheBoy]

:-?

13.5 and 10 grs  are not high values and easy to balance..something wrong there..

the last time a tire shop told me that tire was erroneous I laugh at them.. because they told this for a brand new potenza 

finally I found a shop with a patient worker, tried the tire with other rims and find the fault to be the rim itself.. (the reason  is the rim had many arms and hard to correct and expensive to destroy so they cant trust their work)

after some time he corrected the rim and make the balance on the car.. result was perfect..

so look for other shops imo..

I've had 200grams on a wheel before   (yes, it was a prefacelift MV6 rim)

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Blimey!!   Never knew that was a problem!

Throughout my motoring experience, going through goodness knows how many sets of tyres, I have never experienced a problem with balancing.

You live and learn! 8-) 8-)

[cem_devecioglu]

:-?

13.5 and 10 grs  are not high values and easy to balance..something wrong there..

the last time a tire shop told me that tire was erroneous I laugh at them.. because they told this for a brand new potenza 

finally I found a shop with a patient worker, tried the tire with other rims and find the fault to be the rim itself.. (the reason  is the rim had many arms and hard to correct and expensive to destroy so they cant trust their work)

after some time he corrected the rim and make the balance on the car.. result was perfect..

so look for other shops imo..

I've had 200grams on a wheel before   (yes, it was a prefacelift MV6 rim)

that rim must be definitely buckled :-/

[TheBoy]

:-?

13.5 and 10 grs  are not high values and easy to balance..something wrong there..

the last time a tire shop told me that tire was erroneous I laugh at them.. because they told this for a brand new potenza 

finally I found a shop with a patient worker, tried the tire with other rims and find the fault to be the rim itself.. (the reason  is the rim had many arms and hard to correct and expensive to destroy so they cant trust their work)

after some time he corrected the rim and make the balance on the car.. result was perfect..

so look for other shops imo..

I've had 200grams on a wheel before   (yes, it was a prefacelift MV6 rim)

that rim must be definitely buckled :-/

Show me a prefacelift MV6 rim (UK spec, not sure if Opels had different ones) that isn't